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>As far as I understand it, it was commonly believed that poor people aren’t capable of handling money and therefore should only get food, not money. Do you kn
by rcMgD2BwE72F 7y ago
>As far as I understand it, it was commonly believed that poor people aren’t capable of handling money and therefore should only get food, not money.
Do you know that the most educated people in the country are working hard to make poor people buy stuff they don't need? Who is actually running the advertising business and using the best technology ever invented to increase their profit at all cost? Who's to blame? Maybe be should just stop pushing people under stress to do stupid things and provide them with the best resources to fulfill their need. Money is an excellent medium for that when the game isn't just about blind profits.
- KarlKemp 7y agoI was mocking that idea, not supporting it. The problem always was that it’s really hard to give evidence for what’s basically different ideas about human nature. And that the truth is almost certainly some mixture of circumstances and individual shortcomings. But when unemployment suddenly jumps to maybe 20 or 30%, that uncertainty vanishes, and gone with it is any legitimization for purely punitive policies.