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Steven Pinker on Thomas Sowell

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Welfare State Isn't a Good Thing, Right?

I don't think that Tom has given the dues that are owed to a modern welfare state. So unless every single affluent democracy has got it fundamentally wrong, and that there is a form of governance that has never been tried in human history - then I'm not sure what he's talking about. A libertarian utopia, namely affluent, democratic, no regulations, no redistribution doesn't exist, has never existed,. And therefore held out as a vision has to be called utopian. Fair enough.

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