alt Hacker News> Health care, housing, and education are the big three drivers of mandatory expenses in most peoples' lives
In every developed country two of those are basic human rights, and you get them free even if you’ve never worked simply because you don’t want to.
Every developed country except one, that is.
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cpburns2009 • today at 2:59 PM
All of those are free to the poor in the US with our very generous welfare to the bottom and top percentiles.
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It's not possible for any of these to be "basic human rights", regardless of what rhetoric may be employed by states seeking to assert centralized political control over their provision. Goods and services that must be actively supplied by other people cannot be rights.
Rights are norms that protect people's inherent rights unto themselves as baseline rules we use to negotiate society in the first place. They can't pertain to things that can only be obtained within society.