Hard to predict. In my case helping organize an early distribution of masks to prisons gave me cred with a formidable formerly-incarcerated mental health care activist who’s now running for NY state assembly with a credible shot of winning, and who’s already helping draft state-level legislation on multiple topics of interest to me. Not how I’d pictured that working out, and not every such venture bears fruit, but I tried fewer than 10 things like that before one did.
Currently hoping to help an African immigrant I know raise funds for a cheap-remittances-and-banking business, it’s focused on Africa rather than South America so there’s plenty of room for the latter.
More generally the way to find such opportunities is cognitively loaded—first we need to be able to include them explicitly in our perceptions and true decision calculus as politically relevant persons, with interests that bear some relation to ours, who might have something to offer us in trade.
Hard to predict. In my case helping organize an early distribution of masks to prisons gave me cred with a formidable formerly-incarcerated mental health care activist who’s now running for NY state assembly with a credible shot of winning, and who’s already helping draft state-level legislation on multiple topics of interest to me. Not how I’d pictured that working out, and not every such venture bears fruit, but I tried fewer than 10 things like that before one did.
Currently hoping to help an African immigrant I know raise funds for a cheap-remittances-and-banking business, it’s focused on Africa rather than South America so there’s plenty of room for the latter.
More generally the way to find such opportunities is cognitively loaded—first we need to be able to include them explicitly in our perceptions and true decision calculus as politically relevant persons, with interests that bear some relation to ours, who might have something to offer us in trade.