Development aid for Africa may be ineffective, but relatively small marginal spending on medical care in Africa could have large returns on mortality, life expectancy, preventing diseases like malaria, etc etc etc.
Of course, if present infrastructure/political systems cannot handle the increased populations such medical care would allow...
Is it really that hard to say ‘no’ after TRILLIONS ($,$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$) have been given away? This magnitude must signal we all really care about those poor savages! Western governments transfering their own people’s money to other governments so we can all pat ourselves on the back about how much ‘we’ are doing? Confirmation bias really is a bitch.
“Western aid to Africa is actively destructive...stolen to prop up corrupt regimes...destroys local industry”
Aid is (largely) about exercising and maintaining power, or shall we suppose our leaders don’t know its deleterious effects for Africa? Health care spending is simililarly about power. Whoever pays has the ultimate power (take heed, single payer advocates).
Sadly as bw notes, we self-deceive & manipulate the evidence whenever it doesn’t fit our beliefs. It is a terrible irony that we subconsciouly impute our own selfish motives upon any resented facts
Development aid for Africa may be ineffective, but relatively small marginal spending on medical care in Africa could have large returns on mortality, life expectancy, preventing diseases like malaria, etc etc etc. Of course, if present infrastructure/political systems cannot handle the increased populations such medical care would allow...
Is it really that hard to say ‘no’ after TRILLIONS ($,$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$) have been given away? This magnitude must signal we all really care about those poor savages! Western governments transfering their own people’s money to other governments so we can all pat ourselves on the back about how much ‘we’ are doing? Confirmation bias really is a bitch.
“Western aid to Africa is actively destructive...stolen to prop up corrupt regimes...destroys local industry”
Aid is (largely) about exercising and maintaining power, or shall we suppose our leaders don’t know its deleterious effects for Africa? Health care spending is simililarly about power. Whoever pays has the ultimate power (take heed, single payer advocates). Sadly as bw notes, we self-deceive & manipulate the evidence whenever it doesn’t fit our beliefs. It is a terrible irony that we subconsciouly impute our own selfish motives upon any resented facts