I don’t know how relevant this is now, but here’s a link to another post where I expressed my thoughts on what kind of pitfalls you might most likely face – https://lemmy.world/post/36867409

By the way, what is this phenomenon on Lemmy? Let’s say people are reluctant to read and comment on old posts published just a couple of days or a week ago, but with new ones, it’s a completely different story. What kind of psychology is this? Or it seemed to me?

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I don’t think “the government will use it to control us” is a good one as that can be said about any social service the government provides.

    It’s backwards, as the method of social control by the state is national security. And we’ve never seen so-called libertarian conservatives flinch at inflating the size of the Pentagon or the FBI or ICE.

    The real “danger” of Social Security / Medicare / HUD is that a state official might provide a benefit that endears the public to an institution of the state at the expense of the free market. In effect, the “control” is the result of popular support for a program. And the “victims” are people who want the program expanded.