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by xenadu02
3994 days ago
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>If someone has no fundamental drive to work, The research shows this is an extremely tiny portion of the population. The vast majority of people will find some kind of productive enterprise. It seems paradoxical but giving homeless people free housing with no strings attached tends to end with them getting a job and rejoining society. They almost never just lay around all day doing nothing. It's one of the last great Victorian lies still infecting us today. |
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His central premise is that the drug policies of the last 100 years have marginalized and disconnected addict populations. His proposal is that connection is the opposite of addiction.
Interesting to hear temporally adjacent to the idea you express -- providing the means for marginalized populations to rejoin society should be priority #1.
[0] http://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_yo...