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Re:California will pay off all past due rent by UncleMeat on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:42PM (#27596221)
It depends on your goals. Do you want to create a maximally fair society? Or do you want to minimize suffering? If it is the latter, it can be completely acceptable for aid initiatives to end up giving more to people who planned less well.
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Re:California will pay off all past due rent by atom_arranger on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:50AM (#27602640)
It would be better to give equally to people.

You can raise the baseline without excessively penalizing those who were more responsible.

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Re:California will pay off all past due rent by UncleMeat on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:56AM (#27603388)
It would be different. Like I said, it depends on your goals.
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