#EXAMPLE: I thought “outlawing the symptoms of poverty” was a fairly common phrase, but I can’t find it now. (Maybe it’s something similar that I changed in my head?) But I feel like that has a lot of overlap with this, if not being just a subset.
Like, you see people living a whole family in one room and a landlord profiting off of that, and you think no one should have to live in those conditions. So you forbid landlords from putting a whole family in one room, thinking “this family now lives somewhere with more space” is a live option. Or outlawing loan sharks, thinking people will be financially secure without them.
(As with price gouging, there are less naive reasons to do these things, and other alternate options than “do nothing”.)
#EXAMPLE: I thought “outlawing the symptoms of poverty” was a fairly common phrase, but I can’t find it now. (Maybe it’s something similar that I changed in my head?) But I feel like that has a lot of overlap with this, if not being just a subset.
Like, you see people living a whole family in one room and a landlord profiting off of that, and you think no one should have to live in those conditions. So you forbid landlords from putting a whole family in one room, thinking “this family now lives somewhere with more space” is a live option. Or outlawing loan sharks, thinking people will be financially secure without them.
(As with price gouging, there are less naive reasons to do these things, and other alternate options than “do nothing”.)