Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf]
by narag on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:25AM
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I'm reading this chain of responses and still haven't seen anybody saying the obvious: that poverty is not the same thing as not being rich. Instead, you keep digging in the misunderstanding, reaching absurd conclusions.
In most first world countries, there is basic free education and children can study for a job with enough pay to provide for a decent life style. That's not to say that there're no problems. There are. Often accomodating immigrants from poor countries. Also because declining population and pensions and all that.
But do you want to go full socialist because only rich family children get to the most expensive colleges? O_o
Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf]
by solatic on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:28AM
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You should watch the documentary Children of the Sun, which describes attempts by early kibbutz movements in Israel to raise children communally and not directly by their parents. There were upsides (the children grew up with characteristics that we would think of as strong and independent) and downsides (clear early-childhood trauma, with unclear consequences).
Not that I suggest any of this in serious mind you, it's just the kind of thought experiment day-dream that gets me through my workday. What this one has taught me is this: nobody actually wants a meritocracy.