To Solve a Social Problem, You Need More Than a Theory

I really love that they had the strength of will to do science before they did philanthropy.

Often when trying to solve a hard social problem we just do what we think is intuitive. Raise the Minimum wage, cause the problem is people don't make enough, so if they make more it will be better. Then we find out that there is inflation and we only made the problem better in the short term.