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No. "Free" has an odd effect on people. For example they may think the item has less or no value ("Why are they just giving this to us? Are they trying to pois
by AceJohnny2 8y ago
No. "Free" has an odd effect on people.
For example they may think the item has less or no value ("Why are they just giving this to us? Are they trying to poison us?"), or think the item is unlimited.
The point isn't to recoup costs, but to make the recipients value the item.
- dmd 8y agoI don't mean "just give it to them" as in without cost, I mean don't disallow anyone from getting it, regardless of whether they're supposedly eligible or not.
- Proziam 8y agoIf you are struggling enough to go through the effort to try and scam the government for a small portion of free rice then I think it's obvious they value the item. Not caring about the edge cases is almost certainly the correct choice here.