Incentives, How do they Work?

Wednesday 27 March 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

Dr. Ben Carson, world renowned neurosurgeon and native of Detroit on the government incentivized circle of poverty in inner city America:

There is your elite group of intellectuals who pass judgment on everything. They see the people who are on the lower end of society and they say ‘you little poor thing’ and they pat you on the head and say, ‘we’re going to take care of you.’ Of course, that just enables them to remain in that situation without real incentive to improve themselves. You need a lower class in order for you to be the elite intellectual.

The correlation between welfare and generational poverty is well documented. And government incentivizes this behavior by making it so that nuclear families can’t be recipients, keeping single mothers who might otherwise seek a father figure for their children from doing so so that welfare checks can keep rolling in, but it also serves to keep her children in poverty, and the cycle going. And the intellectual elite promotes this kind of government incentivization to remain poor.

2013-03-27  »  madlibertarianguy