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wealth is strongly inversely coorolated with population growth. Keeping people in poverty means they have more children, not the reverse.
by throwaway2048 10y ago
wealth is strongly inversely coorolated with population growth. Keeping people in poverty means they have more children, not the reverse.
- jimmywanger 10y agoAs replied to above, the basic income doesn't highly correspond to wealth on the scales involved based on the studies frequently cited.
- reddytowns 10y agoUBI would incentivize people to have more kids. I think that would override the wealth to children correlation. Also, wealthy people are often busy trying to maintain their own wealth. The excuse about not having kids is often about being more career oriented.
- aianus 10y agoOnly because wealth is positively correlated with education and impulse control. There's no reason to believe handing a poor, uneducated person with no impulse control a big wad of cash will have the same effect.