You need to improve on this. Also, consider the costs of welfare. And look into the history a bit more.
Many of the functions of welfare were provided by mutual societies, not by charities as we know them. You might find looking into who introduced welfare systems and why quite informative. It often had little to do with charitable notions and more to do with reducing crime.
“You need to improve on this” is not constructive.
I agree that there is another possible explanation of the form: people want welfare in order to reduce crime, this creates a coordination problem (since the welfare a single person pays doesn’t reduce crime only for em personally), which requires the government to solve.
The functions of state welfare were not fuliflled well by mutial aid socieities, because then the introduction of state welfare would have made no discernable difference.
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You need to improve on this. Also, consider the costs of welfare. And look into the history a bit more.
Many of the functions of welfare were provided by mutual societies, not by charities as we know them. You might find looking into who introduced welfare systems and why quite informative. It often had little to do with charitable notions and more to do with reducing crime.
“You need to improve on this” is not constructive.
I agree that there is another possible explanation of the form: people want welfare in order to reduce crime, this creates a coordination problem (since the welfare a single person pays doesn’t reduce crime only for em personally), which requires the government to solve.
The functions of state welfare were not fuliflled well by mutial aid socieities, because then the introduction of state welfare would have made no discernable difference.