Welfare- Bureaucracy Driven Vs., Humanity Motivated
A Politicized Concept, Rhetorically Ambitious, with Paradoxical Outcome
Welfare is an ancient phenomenon that goes back to the roman empire when the first emperor Augustus provided the “Cura Annonae” or “grain dole” for citizens who could not afford to buy food every month. Welfare statehood is rooted in innate human nature to help fellow humans. We have obligations towards our neighbors and fellow community members. Some call it humanity, other collective consciousness, and many see it through the lens of the golden rule and sense of ensuring liberty to all individuals.
Today the definition of welfare rests within the “collective” frame.
Humans are social beings, and once they started building the community, they found the need for an organized leadership to maintain order within the system. However, despite the legitimate reasons for establishing government administration to support the proper ordinance, the regime’s role did not stop there.
As we have witnessed throughout history, once a government engages in a public-private affair, citizens of the community fall…
