Giridharades Anand:„When a society helps people through its shared democratic institutions, it does so on behalf of all, and in a context of equality. Those institutions, representing those free and equal citizens, are making a collective choice of whom to help and how…
…When help is moved into the private sphere, no matter how efficient we are told it is, the context of the helping is a relationship of inequality: the giver and the taker, the helper and the helped, the donor and the recipient.“
@dejanfreiburg We have to take care of the democratic support structures, they are always in danger to get into a donor/recipient relationship. As in Germany with the Hartz IV system and its burdens on the clients.