Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 19 days agoThe best argument for altruismlemmy.worldimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1447arrow-down117
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoPeople often are not happy if they live in poverty. The libertarian solution to that is essentially “stop being poor.”
minus-squarevga@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-218 days agoAnd it works! It does require not shitting on the education systems and getting many other things right. But directly helping poor people clearly doesn’t work in any real way in making them not poor.
People often are not happy if they live in poverty. The libertarian solution to that is essentially “stop being poor.”
And it works! It does require not shitting on the education systems and getting many other things right. But directly helping poor people clearly doesn’t work in any real way in making them not poor.