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Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by empath75 on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:58PM (#15689050)
It's pretty remarkable that money apparently cures psychiatric disorders. Maybe we should be prescribing cash instead of ritalin to kids with ADD.
Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by 11thEarlOfMar on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:02PM (#15689105)
It's about family dynamics. Parents who can focus on providing for and raising their kids will have a better outcome than those those that struggle to put food on the table. If the parents have hope and a means to deliver, the whole outlook of the kids changes from a life of coping with hopelessness to looking towards a future that they have influence over.
Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by empath75 on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:42PM (#15689521)
I was more making a statement about how those kinds of disorders are over treated with medication when a change in the home environment would make a bigger difference.
Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by dragonwriter on Monday November 13, 2017 @04:54PM (#15690625)
> It's pretty remarkable that money apparently cures psychiatric disorders.

Actually, the results are that it reduced the risk of developing such disorders; that there are environmental factors for psychiatric as well as other medical disorders and that many are correlated with poverty and/or economic insecurity is decidedly not news.