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You’re probably not even kidding, it’s part of a good solution. However, take a 360° look on the other aspects of this solution:

- We seek to raise every person in poverty to the average consumption level. Through charities, political programs, etc. Should we stop?

- If you don’t drive people to earn, you don’t drive people to work. And you get a dysfunctional society which consumes a lot but does not produce a lot.

- It’s the same philosophical problem as if you started to be fair towards men, then they’d stop striving. I assure you that you don’t want that.

- Would you be ok with solving climate change at the expense of other social targets? If not, congrats, you’re a leftist not a scientist.



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