I didn’t mean to imply the full ‘optimal amount of fraud is non-zero’ frame. I do mean an amount above that, and typed ‘non-zero’ hastily.
I wouldn’t support a policy of “let’s just roll back our shrinkage enforcement and let people steal more food”. I would instead support giving poorer people something like expanded EBT food stamp credits.
I support what gets the people fed. Supporting an option that isn’t really on the table (because serious proposals for doing welfare well aren’t being actively debated and implemented) doesn’t do anyone any good. I am not talking about a perfect world; I am looking at the world we are in and locating a tiny intervention/frame shift that might marginally improve things.
I didn’t mean to imply the full ‘optimal amount of fraud is non-zero’ frame. I do mean an amount above that, and typed ‘non-zero’ hastily.
I support what gets the people fed. Supporting an option that isn’t really on the table (because serious proposals for doing welfare well aren’t being actively debated and implemented) doesn’t do anyone any good. I am not talking about a perfect world; I am looking at the world we are in and locating a tiny intervention/frame shift that might marginally improve things.