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FREE TO CHOOSE: Milton Friedman on the welfare state's effect on private, charitable activity
I have just started watching the series “Free to Choose,” and it is genuinely fascinating and entertaining. The best part– which I was not expecting– is Milton Friedman’s endearing warmth, curiosity and joie de vivre. You wouldn’t guess that this man practices the ”dismal science.”
In this clip from Part IV: “From Cradle to Grave” (1980), he discusses the deleterious effects of the welfare state:
One of the things I hold against the welfare system most seriously is that it has destroyed private charitable arrangements which are far more effective, far more compassionate, far more person-to-person in helping people who are really, through no fault of their own, in disadvantaged situations.
