Arthur Brooks

And it did a lot.

I mean, social welfare programs did a lot to lower caloric needs and make sure there's more public access to education and all kinds of good stuff.

But the truth of the matter is that after a certain point, it starts to wire in pathologies.

Actually, it makes it harder for people to actually become independent, et cetera.

Because they become reliant on the money?

That's the idea.

Yeah, that's the whole idea of this.

It's certainly not true for everybody, but it's certainly true for other people.

And I asked him, who is one of the architects in this war on poverty, what would have made it that would truly have won?

You really wiped out poverty once and for all.

And he said, just a little more money.

But that's what a lot of people in the Valley think today, is that we're going to get it out for that, that these are solvable worlds.

We just need to go deeper.

We need to go deeper.

They failed.

Yeah.

Now tell me, let's say why.

What do they do?

You remember?

It wasn't going to education.