• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    But a welfare state is an indication that the state is owned by the people who work in it therefor worker ownership of means of production.

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      9 hours ago

      But a welfare state is an indication that the state is owned by the people who work in it

      The first modern welfare state was implemented by Bismarck.

      Don’t exactly know that Bismarck is indicative of a worker’s state.

      States often implement good initiatives for a population not because they’re controlled by the population, but because they want to control the discontent of a population.