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2025-05-12 14:58:38
"Bismark in the 1880s created compulsory insurance for accident, health, disability, and age (pensions). He called them “state socialism” and explained that all measures were socialist, and the state had to adapt to a little more socialism. What he wanted was to make the workers more dependent on the state and on him, that is, to have a dependent population under the ideology of national collectivism. The idea was that it would generate dependence and loyalty, which the German government needed to dominate Europe."
The Cultural Consequences of the Welfare State
https://mises.org/mises-wire/cultural-consequences-welfare-state