I’m currently in the midst of throwing money at a problem - car’s brakes corroded after I didn’t drive for three months due to Reasons. I’m desperate to get back behind the wheel - a backlog of car-centric jobs has piled up.
On a large scale, when has it not worked? All examples I can think of it not working tend to be things like a guy trying to fix a problem in his home, by himself, but has no idea how to do things and keeps spending money on better equipment and parts, but still has a problem because he has no ability to use any of them properly.
You put more money into roads, the roads get better.
You put more money into education, children get taught better.
You put more money into war machines, you get shit that can obliterate all the people in a city without destroying the infrastructure.
Education is a issue on which if fails repeatedly.
Flooding a school system with money does jack shit if that school is in a poor community where the students and parents don’t value education. There are tons of examples of districts with massive per pupil spending that get horrible result compared to schools with less spending per pupil. Or if the district is full of corruption.
poor community
So the problem is still poverty.
you don’t fix poverty by giving poor people money.
you fix it by providing them upward mobility.
UBI pilot programs give a lot of evidence to the contrary
No, they don’t.
My renter complained that her dishwasher was broken. Bought her a new dishwasher. Complaints stopped because dishwasher works.
When I lived in a low CoL country, it was pretty convenient to throw money at problems like home maintenance (repairs, cleaning, etc.) instead of doing it yourself. Doing that in a high CoL country isn’t feasible long term unless you’re rich enough.
thats kinda how its supposed to work. people learn to do something well and you do the thing you are good at and hire someone to do the stuff you have not learned to do well. It still blows my mind the old tv shows with the milkman, mailman, tv repairman, phone repair man.
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fixing (thing) that you’ve been half assed fixing for ages
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having the right tools for the job
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I mean that’s how governments always solve problems.
Im surprised nobody here mentions time. I can do alot of things myself. Like all the things that you can imagine. But my time is limited and I’d rather spend it with my family. So solving something by just spending some money saves me time and several headaches.
Where do you get the 75% useless?
What is a specific situation you’ve seen where it didn’t work?
Serious, not trying to start trouble.
Major infastructure projects (in certain countries) tend to turn into infinitely deep money pits due to rampant mismangment and corruption that can swallow the entire budgets of smaller nations and still not get done. They tend to drag down the average.
I see what you’re saying.
On the other hand, that’s more about corruption than it is about actually solving the problem.
Bro. If I had money I’d throw it at you.
