Actually, Yes!
Actually, Yes! and it's been studied! A group of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina got some money from opening a casino. They decided to share profits, giving $6000 a year to each person in 2001 for instance. It's more or less a basic guaranteed income. So what happened to these people who'd lived in poverty before and now got a bit more money? Children who were moved out of poverty saw behavioral problems declined 40%, crime declined, and high school graduation rates increased . Like magic! See [1] for more. Main takeaway -- money increased parenting quality; parenting is key to success. Money can solve a lot of problems. Do you know how regular people try to actively become wealthier? They work more hours a week at minimum-wage jobs (ok -- add a second 20-hr/week part time job to your 40 hrs and you make less than 550 extra a month after taxes, and you are working 60 hrs/week so can't care for your own children that well). Or they become real-estate agents. That's a waste of time. If actively becoming wealthier were so easy these scrappy hard-working people would have done it. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891175/
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I mean that's the problem though.
I've always believed the opposite: get conditionals deep in your code so that the higher level control flow is regular.
The biggest problem with AI isn't being able to do things.
I am a 3D printing maker type nerd (I make my own tools for other creative tasks, rather than as their own outcomes) and I saw an incredi...
Of course not, those are clearly scams.
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Actually, Yes!
Actually, Yes! and it's been studied! A group of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina got some money from opening a casino. They decided to share profits, giving $6000 a year to each person in 2001 for instance. It's more or less a basic guaranteed income. So what happened to these people who'd lived in poverty before and now got a bit more money? Children who were moved out of poverty saw behavioral problems declined 40%, crime declined, and high school graduation rates increased . Like magic! See [1] for more. Main takeaway -- money increased parenting quality; parenting is key to success. Money can solve a lot of problems. Do you know how regular people try to actively become wealthier? They work more hours a week at minimum-wage jobs (ok -- add a second 20-hr/week part time job to your 40 hrs and you make less than 550 extra a month after taxes, and you are working 60 hrs/week so can't care for your own children that well). Or they become real-estate agents. That's a waste of time. If actively becoming wealthier were so easy these scrappy hard-working people would have done it. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891175/
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