Ayn Rand Institute: Yaron Brook: 'Yaron Answers: Aren't Entitlements Part Of The Social Contract?'

Source:Ayn Rand Institute- President Yaron Brook.

"Yaron Brook answers a question from John: "Aren't entitlements part of the social contract? Laissez Fair Blog

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From the Ayn Rand Institute

"an actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each" 

According to Merriam Webster 

"a binding agreement between two or more persons or parties

especially : one legally enforceable" 

From Merriam Webster 

I'm more inline with Yaron Brook on the so-called so-contract, then I'm with Merriam Webster. No one ever officially signs up and agrees to pay into any government social contract. We're just required to by law, once we start working, which for most of us is in our teen years. 

As someone who believes in some form of the public safety net, the better way to look at lets say public social insurance, is to look at being a member of a society (in this case a country) as if you are the member of a social club. When you become a member of that club or society, you agree to the rules automatically. And just because you don't take advantage of all the services that the club offers, that doesn't mean generally your monthly fees are going to be smaller than someone who uses all the club's services.

What public social insurance is, (or the safety net) it's an insurance system that we all pay into, but like with private insurance, we only collect from it, when we actually need it. When we're out-of-work, can't afford our own health insurance plan, can't get affordable housing on our own, etc. 

When so-called Libertarians argue against the safety net or government in general, they're really arguing in favor of a society and country by how they argue against government, by saying that they never signed up to pay for that and never agree to pay for it, so why should they. The public sector is obviously different from the private sector. But one can't exist without the other. The public needs revenue from the private. The private needs security from the public.