Old article updated with peer review today.

  • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Please be hookers…

    “Counter to really harmful stereotypes, we saw that people made wise financial choices,” Claire Williams, the CEO of Foundations for Social Change, told me.

    Well look at that.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s nice to have a study to shove in someone’s face when they talk about homeless people as if they were all absolute addicts.

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        1 year ago

        There’s no shortage of those and they’ve never made a difference in these arguments. These people are just ugly and believe they are better than someone else and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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      1 year ago

      If you give someone $20, chances are that, yeah, they will spend it on some quick and cheap comfort to improve their lives in the short term (fast food, alcohol, drugs, etc.). But if you give someone a sizeable sum that will actually help them plan for a better future, the vast majority of people will do just that.

      But that really goes against the whole “poverty is the result of a moral failing” concept that capitalist throught had been hammering into our heads for decades, so we certainly can’t be promoting that fact.