Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strings Attached

Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin... by dsr_ on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:46PM (#24630058)

A government can make it harder, increase the risk, or lower the profitability.

For example, if you register heroin addicts and supply them with clean heroin on a regular basis, you destroy the market for heroin.

If you legalize and regulate cocaine like tobacco, you can destroy billions of dollars worth of criminal activity.

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Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin... by phone8675309 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:02PM (#24633560)

The for-profit prison industry, who use incarcerated people as labor for pennies an hour, has enough political sway in this country that I have reluctantly accepted that these reforms are essentially never going to happen in my lifetime.

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Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin... by asdff on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:50PM (#24634758)

In places like Alabama prisoners aren't always paid. Slavery still exists as a punishment in this country.

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