It's because philosophy majors have no ability to turn their craft into making money, but remain certain that they have something valuable (although monetarily of little value) to impart upon society, so they ask those whose labors actually result in financial success to provide for them so that they can enjoy the benefits of society they could otherwise not afford.
Those whose focus is on business and the earning of money (the mundane fields of finance, law, and accounting), don't seem as needful of the social pooling of money for the general welfare. — Hanover
Relevant additional study: http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/papers/73.pdf
When asked to hypothetically fire a significant amount of the workers in a factory in order to maintain the previous year’s profit (even though one could choose to fire fewer workers and still make a profit), economic students would on average fire as many people as possible, while philosophy students would fire the least. — NKBJ
Think public resistence to general medicare introduced in the USA. Same difference. — god must be atheist
the concept is too simple to interest me to explain. — god must be atheist
I have a transparent face. Many people have told me that. — god must be atheist
Instead of exercising your brain, you called me spineless (not literally), stupid (not literally), and an incompetent arguer (not literally) — god must be atheist
this thing which a simple, uneducated 25-year-old is capable of figuring out? — god must be atheist
Why did you egg me on? — god must be atheist
andthe workers who go on working would tend to prefer a less intensive socialist economic system. — god must be atheist
Think public resistence to general medicare introduced in the USA. — god must be atheist
I appeal to human nature when I say that the more disenfranchised, the poorer, the more marginalized somebody is, the more likely it is that he or she will want to have a system in place where social safety-nets are more abundant and more easily accessed. Converesely, those who find much reward in the system, do not promote social safety nets, as their safety and well-being is well-established, and providing for the safety and well-being of those who are in need will only reduce, even if however litte in amount and in impact, the status of the well-off. — god must be atheist
It's because philosophy majors have no ability to turn their craft into making money, but remain certain that they have something valuable (although monetarily of little value) to impart upon society, so they ask those whose labors actually result in financial success to provide for them so that they can enjoy the benefits of society they could otherwise not afford.
Those whose focus is on business and the earning of money (the mundane fields of finance, law, and accounting), don't seem as needful of the social pooling of money for the general welfare. — Hanover
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