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tribeofone | 5 years ago

Interested to see if this is going to fail like the other times its been tried, or fail differently. Instead of continuing with this stupidity that is doomed to fail and impossible to fund in the long term.. ie free money with no strings attached, why don't they try something that has been proven to work with people that are actually poor (living on less the $1 a day with no social services, municipal services, etc), microcredit. This way you select for the people that actually want to get out of poverty, vs the people that are just going to blow through the money on useless stuff and come back asking for more.

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sandworm101|5 years ago

>> This way you select for the people that actually want to get out of poverty

Being poor is not a decision many people make. Iirc, the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the US remains medical costs.

anonymoushn|5 years ago

My impression is that GiveDirectly has studied this topic and reached the opposite conclusion. Can you post your sources.