<story><title>Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingly well</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588385-giving-money-directly-poor-people-works-surprisingly-well-it-cannot-deal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wahsd</author><text>Those who have for centuries fooled the rest of humanity into believing that their unearned, illegitimate, and unwarranted elevated status is justified know the findings of this painfully obvious fact to be true. Which is why they pull out all and every stop to prevent the majority from realizing it by vilifying anyone and anything that could spread that realization.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingly well</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588385-giving-money-directly-poor-people-works-surprisingly-well-it-cannot-deal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frank_boyd</author><text>As a matter of fact, society has &lt;i&gt;not a single valid&lt;/i&gt; reason to allow concentration of excessive wealth on some kind of restricted group or &amp;quot;elite&amp;quot; (as, by the way, also promoted erroneously by the idea of the &amp;quot;American Dream&amp;quot;). Here are a few facts to explain that this concept is not sane at all:&lt;p&gt;- Excessive wealth is usually hoarded (in bank accounts), not used: But if you want the economy to work the most (creating jobs, etc.), you need to make money circulate as much as possible (which is not what rich people usually do).&lt;p&gt;- Excessive wealth ends up being used for corruption (famous example: the Koch brothers), simply because &lt;i&gt;it can&lt;/i&gt;. You can not get rid of corruption without getting rid of excessive wealth concentration.&lt;p&gt;- Excessive wealth could &amp;quot;morally&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;ethically&amp;quot; only be justified by the existence of &amp;quot;really free will&amp;quot; (a concept which we can never reasonably take as a basis, given the fact that this concept is of religious nature, not rational thinking): Free will -&amp;gt; free decision -&amp;gt; merit of the better decision -&amp;gt; excessive wealth. As noted, this is how society excuses the existence of excessively rich people, and it&amp;#x27;s completely flawed and wrong.&lt;p&gt;- Excessive wealth will always has the tendency to become even more excessive: it gives its holder an &amp;quot;unfair&amp;quot; advantage.&lt;p&gt;- A part of excessive wealth will always be used to protect the &amp;quot;unfair advantage&amp;quot;, thus eliminating equality even more.</text></comment>