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I'm pretty sure the poors deserve their fate, sweaty (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (11 children)

As a conservative I support this idea, because it has no means testing.

Means testing is fucked up in two ways:

It makes government larger and gets the government asking questions, poking its nose into everything
It creates a perverse incentive structure, one which doesn’t match nature and hence doesn’t match the way our brains evolved to respond to challenge.

The perverse incentive structure is the worse of the two, in my opinion. Just like crack cocaine hacks the brain, presents something the brain can’t handle because it didn’t evolve for, rewarding a person with resources only when they don’t succeed basically programs a person to fail.

I’m all for the government generously giving with an open hand to people, and letting the people decide when to start receiving benefits and when to stop. People are either worth it or they aren’t, and a person doesn’t stop being worth it just because they got their shit together, or start being worth it just because they failed.

Government should treat everyone the same. If a government wants to present a service like “free housing if you want it”, I’m totally fine with that.

[–] Leg 17 points 1 month ago

A conservative with compassion and sense is always a welcome sight. This is a pretty obvious solution imo, but the powers that be seem to disagree.

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