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and seems "unfair", what are the other ethical and logistical reasons you don't think it would work?
>For example, and I'll shut-up soon, he wrote about the >homeless problem, and in theory his solution was very >interesting. Long story short: only a small fraction of a >city's homeless are perpetually homeless. These are the ones >that are the most expensive burden, in terms of medical and >psychological care. So instead of focusing money to feed and >house the thousands who will most likely only be homeless for >48 hours at most, we should just pay for apartments and >round-the-clock nurse care for the most hopeless cases, >because from an economic stand point, this makes the most >sense. And it's fascinating to think about. But if you >actually try to think about applying this theory to reality, >it becomes obvious that it cannot work, for different ethical >and logistical reasons. So you have some great food for >thought, but that's about it.