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[–] Decompose@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For some reason you think that the society can be efficient as much as communities are. This isn't true. Judgment from your community is much more accurate from a judiciary that doesn't know anything about you. I think this is your only problem in your thought process. Once you realize that people should be helped only by those who care about them, and helping people you don't know by giving them money wrecks them 99.99% of the time, you'll know where I'm coming from. Reworking legislation doesn't help, because humans have always been better at loopholing laws than following them. Politicians manipulate them to reach their goals (maximize dependence of the population), and people loophole them to maximize their benefit. This will never work. You will never, ever, find the set of rules that will make a perfect society, but you can find the set of rule that makes a perfect small community where people care for each other.

You don't need to move to villages to make this work, btw. You can just keep the government out of it, and make help come from local communities. People will help each other (and have always done that).