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It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.

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[โ€“] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

San Francisco spends $700 million a year dealing with their roughly 7,000 unhoused people. They could just give every one of them $100,000 a year and spend less, and probably have better results.

[โ€“] gurmif@sopuli.xyz -3 points 10 months ago

No they couldn't. If being homeless paid six figures there would suddenly be a lot more homeless people.

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