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It’s like I’m happier when the people around me are happy. If you don’t tread on me, I won’t tread on you.

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People often are not happy if they live in poverty. The libertarian solution to that is essentially “stop being poor.”

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And it works! It does require not shitting on the education systems and getting many other things right. But directly helping poor people clearly doesn’t work in any real way in making them not poor.

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Except it doesn’t because you can’t just “stop being poor” and if you’re living in poverty, you don’t have the bootstraps to pull yourself up with.

Which is why almost all of the richest people in America grew up at least middle class. Most grew up wealthy.

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