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.
I’m pretty sure studies have shown that just giving people money is very effective at ending poverty.
My common sense and Milton Friedman liturgies also say that basic income/negative tax would work, but then there are results like this:
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-basic-income-study-results-2024-7
I wonder if all or most studies show that basic income works or just that some selected ones did? But I don’t mind being wrong about this, I like basic income as an idea. I just had the understanding that it doesn’t work in practice.
