Heavy-handed interventions tend to undermine underlying systems, so they should be used as a last resort.
This reminds me of something I heard once about Effective Altruism.
Imagine you go provide rice to a town in Africa with starving children. It seems like an obviously good thing to do. But what happens to the local rice farmers? Well, they struggle to compete with your free rice. They stop being rice farmers and do something else. Some of them are unemployed. Now your funds dry up and you stop providing rice to the town. At this point they’re worse than they were before you showed up.
This reminds me of something I heard once about Effective Altruism.
Imagine you go provide rice to a town in Africa with starving children. It seems like an obviously good thing to do. But what happens to the local rice farmers? Well, they struggle to compete with your free rice. They stop being rice farmers and do something else. Some of them are unemployed. Now your funds dry up and you stop providing rice to the town. At this point they’re worse than they were before you showed up.