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In the years since becoming a market anarchist I've become a lot more skeptical of ameliorative/secondary intervention. I definitley think there's an order in which to dismantle things (like, food stamps go last), but that doesn't mean I'm in the fight for fifteen or whatev.
On anarchist grounds: it isnt the job of anarchists to lobby the government for shit, and the government is a bad tool.
On libertarian grounds: We ought to think contextually, but there are no ameliorative interventions that don't themselves, taken individually, constitute harm.
On libertarian grounds: We ought to think contextually, but there are no ameliorative interventions that don't themselves, taken individually, constitute harm.
The minimum wage prices some people out of work at all. Food stamps facilitate state spying and coercion. Socialized healthcare can mean the end to recourse re. state sanctioned discrimination (see: NHS). School lunches guarantee outlets for the agricultural industrial complex.
Not saying it would be an improvement for those things to go away rn, but I'm not going to spend much breath defending them. I just think some folks w/ the "secondary intervention" line downplay how they perpetuate victimization in general, even as they ameliorate harm for some.
