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Subject: Re: Why do we feel aroused when two ideas contradict each other?
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Is that a contradiction ? Of course it isn't.
For example doing something for the poor could mean such things as:
- increase the minimum wage, savagely enforce that law
  (Oh haha, the USA doesn't even have minimum wage law ? Slavery is
  fine in the USA, part of their great 'freedom.')
- Give every person its share of land.
- Democratize businesses so that the business tyrant isn't the perpetual
  enemy of labor income (share of profit).
- Socialize investment credit so that it will fund happy businesses,
  rather then the most exploitive of them. You can do that either by
  outlawing rent-seeking, shares, stock and whatever tricks they made
  up, you can dry out capital so the markets will slowly grow but
  according to market share and not by the effects of capital
  investments; or you can introduce a permit system that only allows
  adequately social investment groups (such as well controlled credit
  unions and adequately policed good causes) the ability to invest money
  non-profit to invest in businesses.
- Introduce a maximum on wealth owned by an individual and corporation,
  so that no super-wealth class emerges, which tends to press everyone
  else into the fringe and poverty. Without the super-wealthy, many
  chances to make money that they would (and to a degree only they
  could) exploit would not get exploited, leading to more chances left
  over to now poor people to partake in the markets.
- Work to foment a culture that admires a reasonable wage, stimulate the
  natural hatred of the people of the Plutocratic super-wealthy (usually
  quite evil bastards) class, so that price per work hour rises and
  people would get offended at very low work prices.
- Some kind of system where people who can't pay taxes out of poverty
  are enrolled in Government services where they can at least work to
  pay taxes after they have been able to make a living wage from that
  work too.
- Dramatically reduce Government corruption by ending the imperial
  ambition, back to national politics (Kingdom size rather then emperor
  size), and dramatically increase the democracy of the Government.
- Improve health care and services so that people have less chance of
  becoming very poor from bad health of any kind.
- Set a maximum amount of work hours a week and a year, and savagely
  enforce such laws, so that the few won't be worked to near death while
  others stand on the sideline in poverty without being able to work
  (a well known trick by the capitalists to make more money: intensify
  the work greatly). Causes more people to be able to find work, thus
  fewer are in poverty.
- Introduce classes for all children on how to make a living from their
  share of land. If they can, even if nobody helps them they can still
  rely on their farming skills to survive.
- Stop waging wars as a nation, because waging wars introduces a criminal 
  normative culture, where dog will eat dog, which gets transported into
  salary agreements and the wish to opress others, causing poverty in
  those not too adept in going about this violence (which actually makes
  them better people, but they get hit for it).

All these things do mean you would do more for the poor and the
opressed, while not spending more money on welfare. You could spend
even less on welfare this way, while reducing poverty greatly
(potentially).

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