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Re:The New Luddites: What if technological innovation is a j... by tomjen3 on Thursday August 07, 2014 @10:42AM (#8147934)
Inefficient in what terms? If you want to optimize for a nice current life for that person you give money, if you want to optimzing for getting back to work without starving then you given physical goods.
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Re:The New Luddites: What if technological innovation is a j... by dragonwriter on Thursday August 07, 2014 @06:45PM (#8150513)
> If you want to optimize for a nice current life for that person you give money, if you want to optimzing for getting back to work without starving then you given physical goods.

If you want to optimize for getting back to work in an economy which is rapidly changing, you provide (1) resources which are flexible in form so that people can address different reasons why they might be out of work and the different needs they have to meet to get back into work, and (2) you provide aid in a form makes it easy for people to benefit from work income as additive to the aid.

Money is better for both than a standard-issue set of goods.

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