(12-13-2018, 10:04 PM)lastonealive Wrote: What would population size have to do with anything?

You haven't been to Australia judging by the other comments though.

Population size really has nothing to do with it. when you have more people to take care of, you also have more people to take care of them.

The diversity thing is a legitimate concern though.
people typically favor programs that are designed to pool resources, until they start to believe that some of those in the pool are playing dirty tricks. And people are typically willing to play honestly as they participate in these kinds of pools, but once they start to believe that the people running them are not like them and don't care about them, they will try to squeeze all the benefits they can get out. and it's typically when people don't look like you or talk like you or maybe they live far away from you and have different ancestry, that you start to have these suspicions

One time I called out a close older friend of mine because I thought he was committing unemployment fraud, claiming unemployment but not looking for a job. He said maybe he was, but it shouldn't matter because he had paid an unemployment tax for years and, you know, "those people" were always abusing the system and why shouldn't he.

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