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		dschobel on Aug 29, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happens when you give homeless people a prepa... Right, but this can be trivially shown to be false in the case of capitalistic systems with minimal levels of homelessness and poverty and socialist economies with rampant poverty.

steveklabnik on Aug 29, 2010 [–]

I wouldn't say trivial. It's not like most economies are purely one or the other.

And to be fair to his argument, he's talking about stateless socialism.

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