In this opinion piece, I’ll write about the benefits of a welfare-based national socialist state. I’ll also make the case that, yes, welfare is a form of socialism.
Yes, welfare has many positive aspects, but for some people it comes with a dark side. For example, some people are born with certain genes that make them more susceptible to certain diseases. These people are more likely to die early in life than people born with other genes, but because of this, they receive welfare. Ill write about welfare-based national socialist states in general, but I think that welfare-based social security is the most direct form of socialism I can think of.
Welfare is a government entitlement program that is used to pay for everyone’s basic needs, such as food and shelter. They are paid based on the amount of money each person has. This means that people are not paying into a system based on merit anymore. People who are born with genetic predispositions to diseases (such as a bad heart) are more likely to die early in life, and thus receive less money.
In the UK, where I live, welfare-based social security is often referred to as “welfare socialism”. This is because the welfare system is set up so that most of the money you earn is used to pay into a system of government-provided education and health care. It’s also set up such that the more money you make, the more you actually have to pay in.
Welfare socialism is just one way that the welfare state has tried to address the problem of people born with genetic predispositions to diseases such as a bad heart being more likely to die early in life. A few years ago, a couple of Canadian universities decided to test a new idea called “genetic screening” in the hopes of figuring out if this was a viable solution. The idea was that genetic screening would allow a government to determine if people had a predisposition to a certain disease.
The problem with genetic screening is that it doesn’t actually identify people with predispositions to diseases. Instead, it screens for a certain mutation in DNA. This means that genetic screening can only identify people who have the predisposition. Once people who fit the profile are identified, they can either be prescribed drugs or undergo surgery to correct the genetic defect. It’s just so common in the United States that it’s hard to believe that something like this couldn’t eventually catch on.
The problem is that there are so many people who are misinformed and misdirected by politicians and the media that its almost guaranteed that a large portion of the population will be misinformed and misdirected when it comes to genetic screening. It’s not just that it’s dangerous and expensive, but also because of what it does to people. While a person could theoretically be identified and treated with drugs or surgery, if that person does not suffer from the predisposition, he or she is still considered normal.
If you’re poor and live in a country that is currently in the welfare/poverty spiral you can be put into the category of “normal.” There’s so much misinformation about genetic screening and its risks. In fact, in the United States, we’ve had so many children who were born at risk that it’s now called “prevention.” Its a term that even the president doesn’t understand.
The point is that if youre poor youre going to have a lot of problems. The problem is that we dont know what were doing. We arent sure why our welfare policies are working so well. As a society, we have taken many actions to help the middle class including Social Security, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the minimum wage. But we dont know how to make these things work better. We cant just stop the system because we dont know how to stop it.
But don’t worry that we don’t know. That’s the thing is that we dont know how to start. We dont know how to change our policies to get it better. We dont know how to change the way we think about things. We cant create a new system because we dont know how to be better.
