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(Created page with "<blockquote><q>''They're poor - maybe if we gave them more jobs, they'd earn more money to afford better life!''</q></blockquote> This line of thinking becomes a '''fallacy''' whenever the new jobs don't involve any actual production of the goods that the poor people need. * Instead of lifting people out of poverty, it causes local inflation and amplifies wageslavery. ** People earn more money but the cost of living goes up accordingly. ** The net effect is that peo...") |
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{{minor|This fallacy stems from blind faith in "economic growth", or the approach "just boost the economy and everything else will fall into place".}} | {{minor|This fallacy stems from blind faith in "economic growth", or the approach "just boost the economy and everything else will fall into place".}} | ||
'''Antidote:''' To avoid this fallacy, we have to think ''materially''. Look at the specific kind of poverty - what do people need & want that they can't currently afford? To produce those things, what materials & labor would be needed? What industries would have to be developed? ''That's'' where the economic investment needs to happen. | '''Antidote:''' To avoid this fallacy, we have to think ''materially''. Look at the specific kind of poverty - what do people need & want that they can't currently afford? To produce those things, what materials & labor would be needed? What industries would have to be developed? ''That's'' where the economic investment needs to happen. {{p2|[exception]|When those industries are already developed and have a heavy environmental impact, consider that it's a case of ''inequality'' with rich people overconsuming and poor people underconsuming. In that case, the solution is [[redistribution of wealth]], and for the rich to become more [[frugalism|frugal]] and less wasteful{{x|waste may be both from individuals and from businesses refusing to mark down unsold goods}}. Physical resources need to be freed up for poorer people to use. {{pn|This should be covered more in the "examples" section.}} }} | ||
==Examples== | ==Examples== | ||
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