[candiodari]

Just because people try, on occasion, to fight a Nash equilibrium does not mean they can win. Hell, I bet people do that by mistake. Often even.

Only if they win would it actually mean something. Call me when donations (or government policy) end poverty, for instance.

[eli_gottlieb]

Social Security basically ended extreme "living on cat-food" poverty among the elderly.

[someguydave]

At the cost of being too expensive to sustain.

[eli_gottlieb]

[citation needed]