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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by bsanr2 on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:35PM (#26305456)
The liberal approach is to subsidize to maintain that base level, because of an awareness that the social outcomes tend to pay dividends in higher social unity, better health, etc.

Some people would rather pay for private security than for policy that makes muggings less likely, I suppose.

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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by JamesBarney on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:06PM (#26305865)
Is this what California, San Francisco, or New York do?
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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by bsanr2 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @10:36AM (#26316349)
Pay for security rather than progressive social welfare policy?

I take it you've never heard of the NYPD or LAPD? "But they're not private security." Boy, I guess you got me there.

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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by vmception on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:50PM (#26306529)
<State>, <City within the same state> <city within the same state with the same name as the state || state with the same name as the city within the same state>

.... yesn't???

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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by JamesBarney on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:21AM (#26312147)
They are all liberal governments with large GDPs or gdp per capitas who could implement any of these welfare programs if they chose to.
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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by ajkjk on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:55PM (#26306600)
Not really, yet.
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