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Thanks, yes, that's the 3 second summary. Lots of foreign aid never does anything for the intended recipients and can actually prolong their suffering and deprive them of meaningful work while keeping the POS small coalition ruling class in power. It basically provides a free pass for the shitheads to keep them in power and is a way to buy loyalty to policies beneficial for the lending nation, but not for the recipient nation.

Nbd.

I didn't..sorry. I'll delete my comments.

You realize the author isn't OP, right?

Basically that foreign aid often props up and legitimizes shit head dictators. Here's a summary..

Edit: I just realized that was a paywall, sry. But they're right in that pdf's are easily found. It's an interesting read, definitely recommend reading even if I don't think it's the most useful brush with which to paint

Not really. It's easy enough to find at the library, Libby, or PDF via Google search. Probably even archive.org has it. My question was intended for the author, anyway. I still recommend everyone find and read that book, though.

Edit: sorry for being snippy. I haven't eaten in 42 hours and I was about to be sedated for a medical procedure and my blood sugar is low and the book itself is really worth a read and I was worried I wouldn't do it justice with a brief rushed summary.

Care to summarize if you're trying to make a point?

I forget who said this recently but maybe we should dial up food aid around the world so that no one has to eat fucking bats and cause the next pandemic.

It's no coincidence that "effective altruism" became another fash party.

It's based on privilege, authoritariansim, reformism, etc.

https://truthout.org/audio/bizarre-and-dangerous-utopian-ideology-has-quietly-taken-hold-of-tech-world/

Curious to hear your thoughts about Chapter 7 of The Dictator's Handbook by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith.