Everyone can afford roses and bread, the western world just is not ready for that because then you would actually need to pay the fair price for your garments/goods/services and everything else we do for you.
My opinion on this is, do charity in systemic solutions, rather than providing anti-virals for malaria and that’s all, help the affected regions drain their wetlands, eliminate the populations of mosquitos, help them with spraying equipment and pesticides, introduce predators etc.
Food-insecure places should get food yes, but help their agriculture as well, give them mechanization and the know-how, help them out with money. A tractor costs the same everywhere, but a farmer earning 10-15k$ per year will never afford a 20-30k$ tractor, therefore he will be stuck doing manual labor on a small field with small inputs and very underperforming outputs.
Poverty is a cycle, and to break cycles we need to do big changes in infrastructure, education and personal engagement.
Another field that is gatekept by westerners is knowledge, we really can’t afford your libraries of published articles, hell I live on an income that would pay for 10 articles from Elsevier, god forbid if I have to buy everything (Thank you Alexandra Elbakyan).
I suspect many of us would directional agree with the need for structural / systemic / developmental / etc. changes to effect more durable change. But this is a movement whose human nearterm wellbeing arm has a couple hundred million per year to spend and maybe a few hundred to thousand people to utilize (depending on who counts). So the solution space does have to take account of that.
Hey Jason, I was thinking about this today, I also visited GiveDirectly’s website and read some stories, and now I will make a post, I believe there is a way to make an impact, and I’ll elaborate more on that RIGHT NOW. Thanks for the feedback.
Food-insecure places should get food yes, but help their agriculture as well, give them mechanization and the know-how, help them out with money. A tractor costs the same everywhere, but a farmer earning 10-15k$ per year will never afford a 20-30k$ tractor, therefore he will be stuck doing manual labor on a small field with small inputs and very underperforming outputs.
Everyone can afford roses and bread, the western world just is not ready for that because then you would actually need to pay the fair price for your garments/goods/services and everything else we do for you.
My opinion on this is, do charity in systemic solutions, rather than providing anti-virals for malaria and that’s all, help the affected regions drain their wetlands, eliminate the populations of mosquitos, help them with spraying equipment and pesticides, introduce predators etc.
Food-insecure places should get food yes, but help their agriculture as well, give them mechanization and the know-how, help them out with money. A tractor costs the same everywhere, but a farmer earning 10-15k$ per year will never afford a 20-30k$ tractor, therefore he will be stuck doing manual labor on a small field with small inputs and very underperforming outputs.
Poverty is a cycle, and to break cycles we need to do big changes in infrastructure, education and personal engagement.
Another field that is gatekept by westerners is knowledge, we really can’t afford your libraries of published articles, hell I live on an income that would pay for 10 articles from Elsevier, god forbid if I have to buy everything (Thank you Alexandra Elbakyan).
I suspect many of us would directional agree with the need for structural / systemic / developmental / etc. changes to effect more durable change. But this is a movement whose human nearterm wellbeing arm has a couple hundred million per year to spend and maybe a few hundred to thousand people to utilize (depending on who counts). So the solution space does have to take account of that.
Hey Jason, I was thinking about this today, I also visited GiveDirectly’s website and read some stories, and now I will make a post, I believe there is a way to make an impact, and I’ll elaborate more on that RIGHT NOW. Thanks for the feedback.
You are wrong
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