@redscroll @scottsantens I love how most most people don’t even complain about handouts when it’s going to wealthy people (remember PPP loans?) who just hoard the money, but they flip out if it goes to someone who’s going to spend it in their community and stimulate the local economy.

@redscroll @scottsantens It's the same as any other study of productivity or the like - someone in power commissions a study by qualified experts, provides the data and the experimental subjects, then disavows the results as "ivory tower academia" when the inevitable result is "it's better for everybody if you treat people better".

Increased pay, vacation, benefits, welfare/safety net, it's all in the same "we all know the right thing to do but the people in power don't care" category.

@redscroll @scottsantens I do get it, though. It's so unintuitive.