Why won’t people take care of themselves?
Hidesight: The special satisfaction that flows from productive work is now hard to find.
Applying personal responsibility to government would render the big beast largely redundant. The entire show could fit in a medium-sized office.
That’s why those two words are seldom seen in official papers: ‘personal responsibility’ is inimical to modern government.
The job of modern
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Rodney Hide
Wed, 30 Oct 2019
Wed, 30 Oct 2019
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Why won’t people take care of themselves?
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