I stopped reading at the sentence...
That's too bad, as you've missed out on a very well done essay.
Neither Friedman nor Piketty says that the state provides (or should provide) a "robust safety net for all of life's likely contingencies."
You're being extraordinarily picky. Friedman is generally understood to champion the citizen's efforts over the government. Piketty's chief tenet is that the government should redistribute wealth in the interest of fairness and economic safety. It's just a sentence in a prepper essay but it's a reasonable compare/contrast between two very divergent worldviews.
The above is not a political observation, just fact checking. This sort of error makes me think the author hasn't put in enough care and thought into his article to make it worth my while.
Thirty seconds on Wikipedia undermines your point. What, are you an econ major or something?
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