My suggestions can help some people, but not everybody. Because everybody is different. Let's continue complaining instead then?
But I've worked in places like this with people who were deaf and people who had limps, and people with a ton of other problems. And hundreds of thousands of people who have families work in the merchant navy to support them, or in other similar work places.
Sometimes (almost all the time) trying to talk about things on HN feels like having to argue that it is indeed possible to fry an egg or boil a cup of coffee...
Well I don’t think anyone is browsing this thread because they need a solution to their own poverty.
So we’re talking about general solutions for the country at large, and solution that only works for a few means there’s still the problem
of the rest of the poor to solve.
How do you know that? And how do you know that somebody reading here won't need a solution in the future? Or knows somebody who might?
But that was why I didn't want to write about it in the first place. People here don't take kindly to solutions, when it feels so good complaining about problems.
> What if the government had other jobs that paid food and shelter?
They do, various and sundry, e.g. making license plates.
I'm being glib, which is probably unforgivable under the circumstances, but people do this. Sometimes intentionally -- and, granted, there are often other issues in play -- but it's heartbreaking.
Right, and I can construct theoretical models where this works well!
But they're all ripe for abuse, and that makes them politically untenable.
As a layperson in such social matters, I'd guess the real-world abuse rate would be something like 10%. This is mathematically tolerable, and socially beneficial.
But even at 0% real-world abuse, there would be righteous opposition. And at 0% + 1 predictable example, it'd be politically toxic in most of the country.
Not everyone is physically cut out for the merchant marines. This is also inconveniently ignores OP’s family.
Not everyone wants to join the military, but that feels like it’s getting somewhere… What if the government had other jobs that paid food and shelter?