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Re:How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half by pdfcollect on Sunday November 03, 2013 @11:27AM (#6663713)
Why not do this for the entire world? :-)
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Re:How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half by vixen99 on Sunday November 03, 2013 @11:49AM (#6663841)
Possibly because some lousy spoilers will object to working like a dog and financing the bloke down the street who doesn't.
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Re:How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half by noonespecial on Sunday November 03, 2013 @11:56AM (#6663885)
This is somewhat de-fanged by the idea that said lousy spoiler also gets the $3000. Its better than the current system where only those blokes who won't/can't (damn them/pity them) get the handout. People still work like dogs under the current system so... meh?
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Re:How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half by llamataboot on Sunday November 03, 2013 @12:58PM (#6664213)
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...

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Re:How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half by dllthomas on Monday November 04, 2013 @08:30PM (#6672563)
I think that would be fantastic, if you could figure out how to make it work. Sovereignty is a thorny issue. It could possibly happen for a cooperating collection of nations, though determining amounts would be messy.
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Re:How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @02:14AM (#6673655)
Because we don't have the social infrastructure -- starting with an effective world government -- to do it.
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