Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Why Free Water Didn't Help South Africa's Poorest: An Unexpected Truth" video.

  1. 11:00 - “hand out the money” Handing out the water is effectively the same thing. 6000 liters is effectively a new kind of money.
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  2. 12:03 - “progressive tariff… water” One of the big problems with progressive taxation are the cliffs, that aggressively punish the poor when they just pass the edge of an income level, introducing unexpected punitive economic punishment for a small transition. With producing & distributing a commodity, usually costs decrease when output increases, making progressive price increases less necessary.
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  3. “Segregated… completely forbidden to enter big cities” Happening in China, since the communist revolution. No boycott of China, as they genocide the central Asian peoples of East Turkistan.
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