Works great til you "run out of other people's money"
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Replying to @mikebelshe @dylanmatt
...which, when you're simply filling in for a market failure to grow the engine of the economy, not how it works *at all*. Childhood poverty rates predict adult productivity to well-documented degrees.
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Replying to @slightlylate @dylanmatt
But that is not any proof that paying these poor kids' parents will have any impact on their future productivity. If you believe this, you can donate - I believe in your freedom. Just don't steal my freedom to test out your unproven hypothesis.
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Replying to @mikebelshe @dylanmatt
That's what the OP adds to the literature. Lower poverty rates improve outcomes, which is causal. Can argue the economy has changed in ways social science doesn't yet grok, but absent that, a "redistribution doesn't work in this case" argument is much weaker now.
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Replying to @slightlylate @dylanmatt
Ok. So you donated significantly to these causes this year, right? Please disclose with proof. If not, go put your money where your mouth is and then share.
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As I thought - you don't want to spend your money. You want to spend other people's money. I donate my extra cash to education related charities because that's what I think helps most (my choice). Your desire to reappropriate my money is no better than theft.
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I mostly donate to anti-malaria charities for literally the reasons cited above. Being disadvantaged at the start bends all future outcomes, so all forms of working against that (including your good work) are positive.
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