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I think a much better frame to look at this comes off of the recent article posted up on Hacker News in the past week or so. This was the interview about the scarcity trap: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/13/b...

The question is, is by watching the youtube videos or clicking on the apps for bitcoins, giving enough return? Or is it really a case of being inside a "tunnel" and there are more effective means?

If there are more effective means, does this person necessarily want to live better? We can't assume that someone who is homeless "wants" to be homeless (not unless you talk to that person and observe that person), though we can say that the choices he is make is likely to keep him in a scarcity trap that results in being homeless.




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