There have been recent studies where individuals were given a lump some of money, like 5k, and others given a monthly sum. Both groups, when given funds, had better diets, enhanced their children’s educational experience, saved money, some started businesses. After the “experimental period”, their lives continued to improve. The stunning conclusion: money reduces poverty.
We are a nation founded on the ideal of individual effort yielding individual wealth. The means to that wealth in the founding of this country was the enslavement of other people.
Our love affair with individual wealth and the myth that wealth is earned through individual effort, needs to end.
Thank you for your thought provoking, authentic writing.