It’s not baffling at all, 600 dollars a week is a huge raise for about 50% of the population. Most of the social and economic problems we have are not because

It’s not baffling at all, 600 dollars a week is a huge raise for about 50% of the population. Most of the social and economic problems we have are not because people are making bad choices, we have them because people are poor. You’ll see positive effects from that spending for decades, I wouldn’t be surprised if that 600 per week left a cohort of children who grew up a quarter inch taller than they otherwise would have. People forget that Lyndon Johnson’s welfare programs were not in any way a failure, poverty plummeted when things like food stamps were introduced.