Oh hey, also the same thing with environmental issues

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    No, it’s presenting as the “primary” solution, which it is.

    So start by throwing money at the problem, then see what’s left.

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      3 months ago

      The meme literally says,

      “How do we solve poverty”

      Research: give poor people money

      “Maybe with cheap canned food?”

      Research: no, just give them money

      “I have old clothes I hate now. I bet giving them away would help!”

      Research: No…

      “Budget lessons!”

      Research: fuck you guys.

      It literally says, “no, just give them money.”

      The reason why I’m hung up on this is because the meme is trying to be informative and funny at the same time but imo it misses the mark because it oversimplifies the issue. It’s literally saying that you just give money to poor people and poverty goes away; but that’s not how that works. It may help reduce poverty, but capitalists will just raise prices again and now you’re back at square one.

      Edit: expanded a sentence (in bold).

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        2 months ago

        So it’s best to leave the money where it is then?!? WTF? You think that corporations raise prices in order to prevent homeless people from buying their products? What kind of crazy logic is that?