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Auctioning guardianship responsibilities seems like it will attract people or organizations who are primarily financially driven and looking to do the bare mini
by jawns 6y ago
Auctioning guardianship responsibilities seems like it will attract people or organizations who are primarily financially driven and looking to do the bare minimum, or who have to bid so low to compete that they don't have margin to do more than bare minimum. I would compare it to for-profit prisons in terms of incentives.
Just as with the foster care system, it seems like kinship is best, and next best is people who aren't doing it primarily for the money. Next best after that is arguably mission-driven nonprofits. Bottom of the barrel should be financially driven guardians.
- notahacker 6y agoTbf, it's not as bad as the author's linked proposal for 'health vouchers', in which profit driven de facto health insurers have absolute discretion on whether to pay for treatment based on whether it'll be exceeded by the bonuses the government pays them for that patient continuing to be alive...