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> The milk would cost more, but we'd save even more money on road maintenance. This would adversely affect the poor as they drive less and still need milk.
by JustSomeNobody 8y ago
> The milk would cost more, but we'd save even more money on road maintenance.
This would adversely affect the poor as they drive less and still need milk.
- mikeash 8y agoThere are much better ways to help the poor than by subsidizing trucking.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoMy point is you can't just look at something and not take into account where else it may impact. Also, we need to get much better at helping the poor.
- mikeash 8y agoMy point is that “it will hurt the poor” is a very old and very tired response to proposals that externalities should be accounted for in the cost of goods. Part of getting better at helping the poor is helping them directly rather than using extremely inefficient and indirect subsidies on various industries to do so.
- Pristina 8y agoliterally anything that has any negative effect will affect the poor more because the rich have more resources to mitigate the negative effects. so unless you have a solution with no drawbacks, there's nothing you can do to not 'affect the poors'