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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is why the US government runs the mail service, since it guarantees delivery to every address, no matter how remote, even if at a loss.

This is why education should stay a government service, so that schools exist for every student, even when a given class is too small.

And this is why medicine will always need a socialized element, since rare diseases are not profitable enough to treat.

[–] Roflol@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago

socialized healthcare will still be better at popular diseases. None of the approaches are particularly good for rare disease sufferers. But socialized is not a silver bullet.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There have been some pretty extensive studies that indicate that when you give poor people money, they become less poor. When you give poor people enough money to live on, they stop being poor. It’s a radical concept, but it’s also the truth.

[–] Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

South American experiments with printing money make the studies hard to believe. You can't simply give people money without causing a devaluation in said money. You have to take it away from the market somehow (so, tax the shit out of the rich)

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, just send some food to a place that doesn't have enough. Simple enough.

Except doing that puts the local agriculture out of business. No one buys food when someone's giving it away, right? I suppose you can just continue sending food to that country that's now completely dependent on your country. Good plan. That is if your plan is to establish a colonial empire with client states completely dependent on yours.

How about a socialist revolution? Nobody has ever died in a famine in a socialist country! Oh... wait.

Nah the best strat involves subsidizing the local agriculture industry, expanding it while temporarily providing just enough food to top up to area with the needed calories to prevent people from starving. Once the local agriculture industry has expanded, you've succeeded in the whole "teach a man how to fish rather than giving a man a fish" thing.

So you have to send tractors, develop irrigation, maybe send some GMO seeds that have higher crop yields if you're more concerned about people starving than first world moral objections.

But yeah, let's just feed people.

[–] rhizophonic@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

You lack imagination and swallow the pill handed to you. Maybe the economic theory is just bullshit thought to you by the people who benefit most from said theory.