> Of course, giving away an Amazon gift card isn't the same as fighting societal inequality. But the researchers believe these findings provide insight into gov

> Of course, giving away an Amazon gift card isn't the same as fighting societal inequality. But the researchers believe these findings provide insight into government policy on a country-wide level. They pointed out that in Germany, where participants were more willing to equalise the gift card, the government has used taxes and transfers to reduce the poverty rate by 20 percentage points. In the US, where participants were less likely to equalise the gift card amounts, the poverty rate has been reduced by only 8 points. That’s a pretty wild jump. There are probably dozens of other factors that might explain the outcome (e.g., different parenting styles, different degree to which people “obey” the true intent of researchers, ...). And I’m even sympathetic to the cause here