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Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle
KentuckyFC writes "Infectious disease condemns poor countries to an endless cycle of ill health and poverty. Now a powerful new model of the link between disease and economic growth has revealed why some escape plans work while others just make matters worse. The problem is that when workers suffer from poor health, economic output goes down. And if economic output goes down, there is less to spend on healthcare. And if spending on healthcare drops, workers become less healthy. And so on. So an obvious solution is for a country to spend more on healthcare. But the new model says governments must take care since the cost to a poor country can send the economy spiraling into long term decline. By contrast, an injection of capital from outside the country allows spending on healthcare to increase without any drop in economic output. 'We find that a large influx of capital is successful in escaping the poverty trap, but increasing health spending alone is not,' say the authors. And the amount required is relatively little. The model suggests that long-term investment needs only to be more than 15 per cent of the cost of healthcare. But anything less than this cannot prevent the vicious circle of decline."
America's system can't ever work, and never really will except for the rich. Everybody else is expendable and 'surplus population'.
Well... 47% of us anyway, if recent memory serves...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
In the process, as with the wars for freedom of religion that lasted over a century, we cannot expect this penetration of Enlightenment values into the social sciences to take place without a struggle.
I'm sorry, but - is it possible you are unaware of what the Enlightenment was?
The principle belief is the Tabula Rasa Myth, which has been thoroughly disproven by over a decade of genetics research. Literally thousands upon thousands of studies have proven that for any behavioral attribute that can be reliably measured, there is a genetic component. We have the Soviet Union, founded upon your religion, that executed scientists who did not believe, and that tortured and indoctrinated millions with the belief that conditioning can change people significantly.
Social science today, is beholden to these views and is unable to grasp genetics.
This very topic would be demonstrative of this religion. What do we know about all the people they are describing who are impoverished? They have IQs of less than 80. Disease has affected every society, obviously that is no hindrance to civilization. A minimum average intelligence however appears to be required.
You undoubtedly recoil at this fact, just as all sociologists who continue to promote Marxist theory. Many people reading this will probably want to moderate my post down.
But, that's how it goes. Most believers can't accept challenges to their beliefs. Yours is a curious way of dealing with however.
Yeah, how's that intuitive choice of a savior working out there? Truth hurts, eh?
You Republicans are all alike. You're disgusting and have nothing to be proud of so you lie to try to make yourselves feel better. We all know what Obama said. Why not give him credit for telling the truth? He clearly stated that the rich lazy people in this country do not build anything. He said, "You didn't build that." He said that. Why can't CONservatives admit that? Instead Republicans like TheNastyInThePasty's kind, water it down and claim he was talking about infrastructure. No, he was talking about every business. He was showing great leadership by admitting that it is the poor that do all of the work in this country.
Will you Republicans please just shut-up and let the adults in the room talk?