Hacker News Reader

Ok, you’re crazy.

Me: Who produces the food if no one works?

You: Food producers are essential workers so food production is unaffected.

Me: How do people outside the food industry pay for the food without working?

You: They don’t. The government taxes future productive efforts of other people to buy the food.

Me: But I don’t want the government to take my future dollars and give them away.

You: Too bad chump.

A better answer, from your perspective, would probably be that private charity and food banks deal with this problem already, right?

They are certainly more effective than Government handouts.

My point is nobody wants people to starve, neither Elon and his buddies or Gretchen Newsom

The only problem is the government infringing individual rights by shutting down companies.

1. Agents allocate their own scarce resources.

2. Agents make subjective assessments of Covid-related work risks.

3. Agents who previously preferred saving to consumption are less constrained.

Nothing to see here.