Re:Anthony Bourdain on not having debt
by dagw on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:11AM
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One big advantage that charities have and that helps them be much more efficient is that they can pick and choose who they help. If a group or problem is too hard or too expensive or not 'sexy' enough to deal with efficiently they can just ignore them. Governments can't do that.
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Re:Anthony Bourdain on not having debt
by jessaustin on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:31AM
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Governments can't do that.
Governments do that all the time. Look at the shitty schools we in USA force poor black kids to attend. It's easy to be confused by all the demonization and expectation-lowering we get from the media, if one pays attention to that shit. The end result is the same: if we changed public education at all, we might possibly inconvenience some suburbanites, therefore it's most efficient to just screw minorities and the poor as we have for decades.
Re:Anthony Bourdain on not having debt
by freeflight on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:27AM
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How is that an "advantage"? It's basically leaving those behind that would need help the most, while it might be an advantage from an "efficiency point of view", it's not really an advantage in the bigger context of how to have a healthy and able population.
That's exactly what I meant. It's a lot easier to be a charity because you can ignore all the hard problems. That's why they look so much better than governments when you look at things like efficiency metrics.