The market’s informal, spontaneous cooperation for mutual benefit has been replaced by a statist mindset. Per Bylund explains:  What’s happened over the course of the last century with the rise of the democratic welfare state is that these market-based bonds between people within a community have been severed. With the growing state, more and more people have found positions in the economy and society where they do not need to serve others. In other words, the state has made it possible to live off what other people produce rather than contribute to satisfying everybody’s wants. As these bonds between people … Continue reading How Welfare States Make Us Less Civilized