Re:A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying
by yellowapple on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:55PM
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> Have you lived in the ghetto or in extremely poor neighborhoods?
Yes.
> Those who commit crimes will commit crimes on the whim
The vast majority of the time, that "whim" is "I need cash to buy dinner". This is especially true of people squeegeeing cars.
I would much rather see full-fledged safety nets like UBI, but paying people such that they are no longer dependent on nuisance or outright crime for survival is a start.
Yes.
> Those who commit crimes will commit crimes on the whim
The vast majority of the time, that "whim" is "I need cash to buy dinner". This is especially true of people squeegeeing cars.
I would much rather see full-fledged safety nets like UBI, but paying people such that they are no longer dependent on nuisance or outright crime for survival is a start.