Image of What happens when America's Soviet-style food banks embrace free-market economics?
What happens when America's Soviet-style food banks embrace free-market economics?
theweek.com link posted by c_prompt 597 days ago in economics
Feeding America is a network of food banks that feeds more than 46 million people. In 2005, four professors at the University of Chicago helped replace their centralized distribution system with an a...
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Does being rich impose a moral obligation?
utilitarian.net link posted by b_independent 1208 days ago in philosophy
In George Orwell's allegory Animal Farm, he made the point that we're all equal, but some "are more equal than others." In a society where the vast majority of wealth is now owned...
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Ladies first - men, please say chivalry isn't dead
telegraph.co.uk link posted by b_independent 1208 days ago in relationships
In good society, there are general rules for polite behavior that facilitate relationships, and good relationships help us live better lives. Society works better when people have manners, act civi...