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I watched a documentary about the ICRC. They asked sellers to come to a village somewhere in Congo and gave the villagers coupons so that they could buy what th
by _nalply 10y ago
I watched a documentary about the ICRC. They asked sellers to come to a village somewhere in Congo and gave the villagers coupons so that they could buy what they needed the most and exchanged the coupons for money. They created something like a temporary UBI for a village and a market for different needs. A family bought mattresses, another family corrugated sheets, another clothes, and so on.
If you give people basic items for free this will go bad. You know the horror stories in development aid how people sell away the stuff they got for free.
- akjainaj 10y agoA friend of mine works in welfare (a state worker) and has told me most people there don't really need anything. They simply take whatever they can, and they sell or trade what they don't need. And what's even worse: many people turn violent if you don't give them whatever they ask for. So they had to put policemen there all day because they had hit the state workers many times. You know, I'm a socialist, but these kinds of stories really make me turn libertarian there for a moment. (This in Europe)