Yes, $333 can’t buy IQ. Stop the presses, not everything is for sale. What a great discovery!
People literally think that humans are a collection of parts that you can swap out for a better model if you pay money for the service.
Can’t Buy Me Brains
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Someone just discovered the hard way that correlation does not equal causation.
Without attempting to find the full story here, I am guessing that someone has done a study that found a correlation between higher earning households and cognitive skills of children from such households. Since no one can talk about inborn intelligence anymore that would naturally lead to higher earning households, they probably attributed the higher achievement to a larger amount of money available and decided to throw money at the problem. Alas, it did not work. At least now they have data showing their hypothesis was wrong, if they actually dare to interpret it.
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I’d love to see the experiment re-done, but the $300/mo spent on high quality nutritional supplements and/or farm-fresh food.
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That’s only $4k a year? And assuming the study was given to families with children of low income, that’s a cushion so rent’s not late. It doesn’t buy you people who care about you (doesn’t buy you a good daycare even). It takes the edge off financial stress but only the edge.
That helps but that doesn’t directly go to the things that are directly correlated to better adjusted people or less behavior problems (and some of those are not “you took a child and traumatized it” but chronic medical issues that will have to be coped with forever).
I’m still all for UBI but I’m definitely also for strengthening support systems to tackle systemic problems.
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UBI is a dangerous idea. People need a purpose in their lives. The idea that freeing yourself from the “tyranny” of work will unlock your creative potential is a commie fantasy. In reality, most people won’t write novels or start painting, they’ll drown in porn, videogames, and drugs.
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Totally. Again, libs simply don’t understand how human beings work. I keep wondering if they ever met any.
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