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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We offer financial aid for college. That is a lot better than just throwing 50k at every poor kid born without regard for what dumb things they're going to do with it.[/quote]

+1. College is already free for those in poverty. You're expecting poor families who have made bad decisions for generations to suddenly start making good decisions when $50,000 falls in their lap? Have you ever heard of moral hazard? There would just be a bunch of entry level cadillacs appearing outside of peoples' houses when their kids turned 18.[/quote]

OP here.  I am sure that would happen at least 50% of the time, maybe more.  But there might also be thousands of kids who are able to expand their dreams.  And I don't mean that in a hypothetical way.

You know when you get pregnant, that suddenly it seems like everyone around you is pregnant, and you can hardly help but suddenly start absorbing all of this knowledge about pregnancy?  Or when you first learned about the Greek Gods and suddenly you started seeing references to the ancient myths in everything?

I think that if you grow up with some kind of opportunity, you will start noticing places where you can capitalize on it.  Your brain will pick those up instead of filtering them out.

And yes.  A good number of people will just filter them on back out again.  And there are a small number of people who will see those without any money and will find a way.  But maybe, for a huge number of people, this would help.

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