8 men as rich as half the world, page-89

"To give everybody money for nothing is a recipe for disaster...look at what welfare has done, created a whole new raft of social and psychological problems.."

you assume that is because they were given money ---------

how about questioning if the problems came because they weren't given enough money?

How about looking at societies who have no welfare --------------- do they have problems? == oh dear, do they ever.





"Odd, the more money people earn the more they spend...it is a fact that the majority of Lotto winners are broke within 5 years."

an irrelevant thought in this debate - but, well worth doing some 'actual' research on - it is indeed, a fascinating study - to see the differences between those that go broke after big wins and those that get on well after big wins - it is quite instructive.