Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless?

• ruuster13@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  poor community

  So the problem is still poverty.

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  • AskewLord@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you don’t fix poverty by giving poor people money.

    you fix it by providing them upward mobility.

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    • ruuster13@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ok great. So give them upward mobility. That’s going to cost money.

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      • AskewLord@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No it doesn’t. It requires work ethic

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      UBI pilot programs give a lot of evidence to the contrary

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      • AskewLord@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No, they don’t.

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