Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin...
by zach_garwood on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:57PM
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The percentage of parents who are negligent parents is small and not relaged to the poor. The percentage of drinkers who are alcoholics is small and not relagated to the poor. Refusing to help anyone because a small percentage of them act in ways that richer Americans get a pass for is unethical.
All of this stuff sounds great from an academic perspective, but life is not simple. There are people who given a couple of thousand dollars a month, will throw a bag of potato chips and beef jerky at their kids and buy some booze and a Mustang on a 7 year, 18% APR payment plan.
You cannot make an alcoholic stop drinking. They need to make that decisions.
You cannot give people money and assume they will get out of poverty.
Money is a tool to solve problems, but it doesn't solve them, many people in poverty who end up on the dole need social and other supports.