Utopia for Realists

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• London, May 2009 – An experiment is under way. Its subjects: thirteen homeless men. Between the police expenses, court costs, and social services, these thirteen troublemakers have racked up a bill estimated at £400,000 ($650,000) or more. 1 Per year. 2009年5月，伦敦——一项实验正在进行中。实验对象是：13名无家可归的男子。算上警务开支、法庭费用和社会服务，这13个麻烦制造者每年产生高达40万英镑（约合65万美元）甚至更多的账单。 So Broadway, a London-based aid organization, makes a radical decision: From now on, these rough sleepers will receive free money. To be exact, they’re getting £3,000 in spending money, and they don’t have to do a thing in return. How they spend it is up to them. There are no strings attached, no questions to trip them up. 因此，总部位于伦敦的援助组织Broadway做出了一个激进的决定：从现在起，这些露宿者将获得免费的钱。确切地说，他们每人得到3000英镑的零花钱，而且不需要做任何事情作为回报。怎么花完全由他们自己决定。没有任何附加条件，也没有刁钻的问题。 I ... (查看原文)

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• Poor people can’t handle money. This seems to be the prevailing sentiment, almost a truism. After all, if they knew how to manage money, how could they be poor in the first place? We assume that they must spend it on fast food and soda instead of on fresh fruit and books. So to “help,” we’ve rigged up a myriad of ingenious assistance programs, with reams of paperwork, registration systems, and an army of inspectors, all revolving around the biblical principle that “those unwilling to work will not get to eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). In recent years, government assistance has become increasingly anchored in employment, with recipients required to apply for jobs, enroll in return-to-work programs, and do mandatory “volunteer” work. Touted as a shift “from welfare to workfare,” the underlying... (查看原文)

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