Another Hive account@krnel episode!! I love when you come around and drop some deep philosophy on us brother! Great article! I would assert that the reason why people resent the welfare state, is not because people are selfish and uncharitable but rather, as you stated, when one is forced to be "altruistic" all positive benefits are cancelled out and usually results in the opposite of the desired effect. You can't force someone to be kind and in fact, if you do I would imagine it would be very adverse on the social development of a young individual. What statists fail to understand is that they advocate for "fixing" these issues with the same measures that caused issues in the first place.

As Chris Duane beautifully puts it, " There are no collectivist solutions for collectivist problems, only individual consciousness solutions for collectivist problems."

Have a great day my friend! Its great to see you alive and posting well!

~Hratch