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Originally Posted by Makarov
Yes, a $300 cheque will help a low income person more than a $300 cheque will help a high income person. Obviously. However, $600 (as a cheque, or better yet, as programming) will help a low income person a lot more than a $300 cheque for them and a $300 cheque for a high income person for whom said $300 will have no meaningful impact (as you've said.) It is a totally regressive, stupid idea, that hurts poor people.
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I worked a casino night just after the Ralph bucks came out. We did awesome business, but it was quite unsettling. To half the people it seemed this was found money and they just wanted to blow it, the other half seemed (ok, I'm judging here) to be not very well off and hoping to parlay it into something bigger. Either way it strikes me that a one time or periodic lump sum can't be the most efficient way to use the money.