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Brian Chau's avatar

I'm willing to have my mind changed by evidence, but my intuition is that cutting the social security benefits of people with high time preferences is unlikely to be an effective form of deterrence.

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Jonas's avatar

Good point! I think a lot of criminals are not very forward thinking.

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SolarxPvP's avatar

He already addressed this. He says:

"You plan to live fast and die young? Then take away current benefits тАФ SNAP or Medicaid тАФ instead of future benefits."

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