Money Gagged

Giving People Money

Kelsey Piper | The Argument | 19th August 2025

“Just give people money” is the “brute-force solution” provided for poverty in high-income countries. Yet multiple large, randomised studies on “whether sizeable monthly payments help people lead better lives” have shown that they do not seem to produce “sustained improvements in mental or physical health, stress, child development, or employment”. Read the rebuttal and counter-rebuttal here (3,000 words)

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The Left Gagged On Sex Work

Kateleen | The Ick | 13th August 2025

Sex worker’s exposé of sex work activism. There are three paths: the Nordic model, which “criminalises the pimps and johns, not the sex worker”; Decriminalisation, the most “harm reductive approach”; and Legalisation. Small victories aside, this writer is disillusioned. “Sex work is often unpleasant, dangerous and dirty. So is mining, drilling and farming — leftists are desperate to get those workers on their side” (3,600 words)