When discussing social policy, It’s interesting to learn that some people will assume that *everyone* will abuse the system, while other will assume that *no one* will abuse the system.
People who fall into the former fallacy are quite easily found: people who mention “welfare queens”, and conservatives who decry any form of social welfare because the “wrong people” will get it. These folks vastly overestimate the number of people who will game the system.
People who fall into the latter fallacy are also easily encountered: they are commonly leftists and progressives who want to get rid of existing systems (economic, government structures) in favor of co-ops or other egalitarian power structures. These folks often *under* estimate how many people will game such systems to organize exploitive cartels and consolidate power.
I’m not trying to both-sides conservatives and progressives; but they both do have major blind spots that discredit their arguments.
Dave Rahardja /
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