> imply that the government taxes your money to do welfare only
No - this is in the context of the constrasting "trickle down" theory (also derogatory). I took that to mean that instead of trickling down, we should be taking from people who produce the most value and giving it to others. Not we should replace trickle down theory with infrastructure spending - those are not related.
> "people making transactions between each other on what they find valuable" are looking only for their private benefit, society be damned.
Those people are society. Babysitters earning some pocket money; local tradespeople doing jobs; actual community things like churches and running clubs and schools and game cafes; local produce creators. Stuff to spend on locally. That's what makes up society, and those transactions are how it happens.
Society is not a bureaucrat allocating some funds to spend on a committee to decide how round bananas are allowed to be, or whether all children should learn new math or old math, the teacher's opinion be damned. The state is not society.
> Nice hand-wave. This presumes some people produce most value, and they bear the burden of carrying others (who receive value).
I mean, that's actually how it works, only the people who produce most value are the workers, and the people who receive most of it are the capital owners.
No - this is in the context of the constrasting "trickle down" theory (also derogatory). I took that to mean that instead of trickling down, we should be taking from people who produce the most value and giving it to others. Not we should replace trickle down theory with infrastructure spending - those are not related.
> "people making transactions between each other on what they find valuable" are looking only for their private benefit, society be damned.
Those people are society. Babysitters earning some pocket money; local tradespeople doing jobs; actual community things like churches and running clubs and schools and game cafes; local produce creators. Stuff to spend on locally. That's what makes up society, and those transactions are how it happens.
Society is not a bureaucrat allocating some funds to spend on a committee to decide how round bananas are allowed to be, or whether all children should learn new math or old math, the teacher's opinion be damned. The state is not society.