@Rafa_Mangual@SnowLizard2000@jpjsmithey Dumb. The homicides were drive. By the crack epidemic which hit the poorest neighborhoods. The structural vulnerabilities like lack of economic opportunities allowed violent markets and gangs to take root. Poverty was the pre-condition of the lethal crack epidemic…..
@Rafa_Mangual@SnowLizard2000@jpjsmithey You are conflating treatment efficacy of that study you linked with root causality. Proving that a short term cash transfer does not stop violent behavior does not prove that growing up in chronic, generational poverty didn't cause the behavior in the first place.
@Rafa_Mangual@SnowLizard2000@jpjsmithey LOL. You didn’t read that did you. Poverty creates the precise physiological and environmental conditions that make expressive violence more likely. The authors are only pointing out short term economic policies don’t overcome ingrained behaviors in individuals. Continued…
@talktonenice@JuanIsidro@vortmax79 That requires a massive assumption that one had money during those times and didn’t suffer layoffs due to the dotcom bubble burst or the housing crisis.