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Can you cite any studies on that?
by supercheetah 3y ago
Can you cite any studies on that?
- hellojesus 3y agoIt's called moral hazard. It persists in any giveaway program.
- dionidium 3y agoYou want citations for, "if you make something easier to consume, more people will consume it?"
- makeitdouble 3y agoSo, "If you make people's life better, more people will want a better life ?"
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoIsn’t that just a rehash of “tragedy of the commons”?
- makeitdouble 3y agoTragedy of the commons comes from a lack of regulation. Put all the regulation you want, but make sure to guarantee your people live by a humane standard.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoIf San Francisco is handing out free homes to all who come, how would that not be a tragedy of the commons situation? “Everyone can come to SF to live by a humane standard” will never work. So what regulations did you have in mind?
- makeitdouble 3y agoWhy does the regulations have to be limited to San Francisco ? You can't have it both ways, with freedom of travel between states and no federal intervention ever into how social policies are applied.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoOk, I totally agree with that. We will never be able to solve the “how can anyone who wants to live in SF do so humanely” problem but we have a shot of doing it in a region with limited immigration (or humane is applied to legal residents only), like Singapore or Finland.
- dionidium 3y agoNo, because this formulation assumes we're starting with a fixed number of homeless people whose lives we're only making better. This is erroneous on two grounds: 1) it's not obvious that it makes their lives better in the long run, if it means they're less motivated to personally improve; 2) but second, and more important, the number of people who "need" these services is not fixed and policy can create more of them.