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or, well, the smartphone they would use for email, maps, games and web-browsing, and the big screen they would use to watch tv and movies on! do you really thin
by zem 14y ago
or, well, the smartphone they would use for email, maps, games and web-browsing, and the big screen they would use to watch tv and movies on! do you really think we live in a society impoverished enough that providing basic luxuries to the poor would be an overall hardship?
- mkr-hn 14y agoI didn't want to cede so much ground to someone so obviously anti-poor at the outset. Better to limit it to the point and reduce the risk of a derail. Something like "so you think poor people should use government money on toys" would have appeared almost instantly and prevented the few good comments that came out of the discussion.
- kevinskii 14y agoIf I believed that poverty were primarily caused by a lack of opportunity and a concentration of economic power, then no, I wouldn't have any problem with providing basic luxuries to those who couldn't otherwise enjoy them.