Education is a issue on which if fails repeatedly.
Flooding a school system with money does jack shit if that school is in a poor community where the students and parents don’t value education.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
On a large scale, when has it not worked? All examples I can think of it not working tend to be things like a guy trying to fix a problem in his home, by himself, but has no idea how to do things and keeps spending money on better equipment and parts, but still has a problem because he has no ability to use any of them properly.
You put more money into roads, the roads get better.
You put more money into education, children get taught better.
You put more money into war machines, you get shit that can obliterate all the people in a city without destroying the infrastructure.
AskewLord@piefed.social 2 days ago
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
poor community
So the problem is still poverty.
AskewLord@piefed.social 2 days ago
you don’t fix poverty by giving poor people money.
you fix it by providing them upward mobility.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Ok great. So give them upward mobility. That’s going to cost money.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
UBI pilot programs give a lot of evidence to the contrary
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Corruption is probably the biggest thing that keeps it from working. Developed countries don’t have the slightest idea what corruption even is. We hear that word in the US and we think “oh dear, bribes!” But in many parts of the world the entire economy is basically spent on greasing every palm, high and low, to keep some regime in power. Whole generations of entire countries have basically gone up in smoke this way. It makes the army’s $400 hammer sound like an absolute bargain.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
I’m of the mind that if corrupt people are misappropriating funds, then the money isn’t even reaching the problem it is being thrown at. Money could resolve the original problem, but money likely won’t resolve the new problem of corrupt people stealing the money.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You can impose that technicality if you want, but when corruption is perhaps the world’s top obstacle to funding solutions for things, I see little point except the joy of splitting hairs.