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Lumifer comments on Is it immoral to have children? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 23 October 2013 05:07:55PM 2 points [-]

Poverty can be reduced by giving people wealth.

It's not obvious this is true other than in the short term.

This sentence also exists in a large number of variations with the word "wealth" replaced by "power", "technology", "information", "self-confidence", "government assistance", etc. etc.