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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by ajcodez on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:06PM (#17980307)
I see some parallels with aid sent to Africa. Charitable giving can alleviate suffering short term with the side effect of perpetuating suffering long term.

> Aid [to Africa] is an unmitigated political, economic and humanitarian disaster.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123758895999200083

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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by DoreenMichele on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:12PM (#17980366)
You might enjoy reading Diet for a small planet. It gets remembered as a vegetarian cookbook, but the first half of the book is about international politics and how food aid is part of the problem.
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