exhibit A: we are all connected through love and war
exhibit B: macro human behavior never changes, we pretty much all desire and react the same way.
exhibit C: history repeats because too few learn from other's mistakes.
exhibit D: it has never ever been a good idea to trust anything a bank says. they don't love you and are at war with you. they are counting on you to fall in love with the wrong girl, again.
Lower interest rates cause people to wait for a lower rate, higher rates cause people to take out loans before the rate goes up again. CBs did the worst possible thing with no historic evidence it would work, as usual.
I wonder if the "privacy" features in Win10 play a role here. Seems like some extra process accounting could cause delays not present in previous versions.
What good is healthcare if you have no home and no stability? The problem with reducing poverty is the people trying to reduce it have never been in poverty so all they are doing is guessing, or worse, exploiting.
What good is home and stability if you're crippled (or dead) from disease? The point of the article you didn't read is that addressing health care is the most impactful thing we could do right now. That doesn't mean it will be so for ever. It in no way precludes on addressing other issues as well. I for one reject the implied argument that we should avoid doing one good thing because it doesn't lead to instant perfection. Seems like a bit of a callow excuse to me.
That home then passes on to their offspring, giving them one of the primary tools for staying out of poverty -- a safe place to sleep and store things like food and clothes. People who don't have the safety a home offers are forced to plan for the moment and not for the future.
My explicit argument is $75 billion for healthcare to the poor goes in exactly which pockets? That's always been the scam: Help the poor pay your friend.
Homes can be destroyed. They can be seized. They can be turned into debt obligations. Now try that with a vaccine.
> People who don't have the safety a home offers are forced to plan for the moment and not for the future.
People who don't have X are forced to plan for the moment, for many values of X.
> My explicit argument is $75 billion for healthcare to the poor goes in exactly which pockets?
$75 billion for X often goes in the wrong pockets, for many values of X. Why are you so stuck on the idea of housing as the one thing that's uniquely beneficial and immune to the problems affecting other kinds of aid? People who have actually studied the issue, including those who wrote the OP, seem to have reached a very different conclusion. I'm inclined to believe people who show their work, more than those who engage in evidence-free special pleading.
Whether housing has an effect is not the question. Whether it's the most effective kind of aid is, because that's the only way you could reject alternatives in its favor. Nice that you spent hours looking for something to confirm your existing belief, though. It's learning of a sort.
If you have good health you can work to better your life which turns into a home. If your health is bad you may not have the ability to make your life better.
It is the old teach man to fish vs give him a fish thing, but with a twist. Someone who is physically unable to fish (ie disabled) will not eat for a lifetime no matter how much effort you put into teaching.
Your point about stability is important, but it not a major factor for large numbers of poor people. (don't get me wrong, for others it is the large factor)
It's a lot harder to maintain stability if you're healthy.
We like to use empirical research studying many people in poverty, which strikes me as being better than a personal anecdote. Less salient, but also less skewed to my one life story.
Steal. It's your only way out for convicts in this system. You too don't need to be compassionate and can freely ignore anyone's desire for safety, as you have been labeled as not deserving of either.
The better way is to reduce poverty. You can build whatever "rehibilitation" program you want, but if the future holds no promise, why follow the rules?
exhibit B: macro human behavior never changes, we pretty much all desire and react the same way.
exhibit C: history repeats because too few learn from other's mistakes.
exhibit D: it has never ever been a good idea to trust anything a bank says. they don't love you and are at war with you. they are counting on you to fall in love with the wrong girl, again.
exhibit E: 100 years of data is not enough.