Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingly well

Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by joelrunyon on Monday October 28, 2013 @03:54AM (#6625716)

> You don't see deviances like that in genetics.

You don't? You don't think Lebron James is better than about a billion people at the game of basketball?

This is the 80/20 rule niched down about 10x.

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Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by nikatwork on Monday October 28, 2013 @04:16AM (#6625759)

To use your metaphor, one player is given 300 free shots while everyone else only has one. And if you don't sink enough baskets, you starve. Also don't call in sick for a game, nobody cares.

I don't understand why HN is so strongly anti- corporate and govt monopoly and yet so massively pro-personal monopoly.

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Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by sv_underbelley on Monday October 28, 2013 @04:33AM (#6625800)

There is usually a libertarian vein in anyone who thinks they possess a lever that can move the world. It's not necessarily a bad nor good thing.

Like all communities, we attract self-same thinkers.

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