the rightwing attack on social security and libraries
Just had an epiphany about why the right hates social security (and libraries as well). It's basic Marxist materialism.
Capitalism needs to expand. So if there is any market they will fill it, and even if there isn't a market they will invent it. The problem is when you have state run services that aren't profit driven, then capitalists can't compete. They can't even enter that market space. For every one dollar in Social Security the administration overhead is 1 cent. Imagine if Amazon had a 1cent on the dollar overhead and margin, everything would be insanely cheap. And no billionaire owners.
Capitalists cant compete with state run social services so they are hell bent on destroying them. It's so obvious and points out the inherent inefficiency of capitalism!
Great summary of the current state of social services. Since politicians currently can't get rid of social security outright due to public backlash, they're all trying to raise the retirement age to force all of us to work until we die, so that no one will claim social security.