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Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin... by bioinformatics on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:07AM (#24627965)
When everything is free, nothing is. Some people have no understanding that infinite money doesn't mean infinite problems in the end. At some point in time, someone will pay the bill.
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Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin... by shakezula on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:10AM (#24628001)
Yeah but no one is saying to give people infinite money? Poverty is expensive, and it’s cheaper in the medium term to house homeless for free and get them on track to paying taxes again than to let them run up hospital bills for preventable injuries or illnesses.
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