The Dangers of the Welfare State

I'm a fan of the sort of you might call the 19th century bourgeois values and this kind of idea that you should suffer the natural consequences of your own bad decisions. I think as we've become wealthier is our hearts bleed for people who who make bad decisions so we end up subsidizing those bad decisions by trying to cushion the blow, he says. The overdose crisis in the U.S. is an effect of people feeling as if there's always going to be a safety net there which will protect them from the consequences of their own bad decisions,. "We need to kind of steal ourselves to the notion that that is not a role for government maybe it's a role for for private

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