Re:Policies that make the poor less poor
by petermcneeley on Monday June 21, 2021 @10:52AM
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Maybe basic income only applies to "first world countries". Maybe there is a notion of plenty that only applies to modern industrial societies with high resource/population ratios. Maybe India just isnt ready?
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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor
by alex_smart on Monday June 21, 2021 @12:25PM
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Of course that is what I believe. Should have been clear from the way I phrased the question.
There was nothing in the context that suggested that this this discussion was only about the poor in developed countries. After all, most of the world's poor actually live (unsurprisingly) in poor to low-medium income countries. Perhaps this is something that I should be mindful of in the future?
As someone born in a "third world country" I am obviously very interested personally in these problems. In the state I was born in, one out of three people is still below the poverty line (which is like 2 USD a day). To me it seems that for us it is much more practical to learn from whatever the fuck China is doing rather than a method whose primary appeal is ideological.