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Re:Disappointing Findings on Anti-Poverty Cash Transfers in ... by valar_m on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:50PM (#16386955)
>I think that the problem is simple.

No. Poverty is an extraordinarily complex problem. Its root cause isn't even fully agreed upon by those who have studied it. The example in your link is not even remotely comparable or analogous.

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Re:Disappointing Findings on Anti-Poverty Cash Transfers in ... by btilly on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:00PM (#16387047)
"The problem" I am discussing was the problem causing this program to not work as desired.

The problems that lead to poverty are another story. They are indeed complex. And any discussion of it is made harder by the fact that people superimpose their morality+politics on top of the discussion.

I don't even want to begin to tackle that...

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Re:Disappointing Findings on Anti-Poverty Cash Transfers in ... by ythn on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:00PM (#16387044)
Everyone who thinks a long-term unsolved problem is simple:

https://xkcd.com/1831/

...except in this case, poverty has been around for 1000s of years unsolved.

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