Re:Effective altruism is not effective
by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @08:28PM
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We should also stop requiring poor nations to follow intellectual property laws. If we didn’t make them pay high license fees for medications etc they wouldn’t be so destitute. Broadly speaking if local economies could develop producing and selling clones of important goods, they could grow their own economy more easily. Intellectual property restrictions are a completely human made notion that keeps the powerful wealthy but it harms the poor. And unfortunately the WTO and IMF have long required harmonization of IP restrictions as a condition for aid money. We forced them to abide by our rules in order to “help” them and it’s doing great harm.
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Re:Effective altruism is not effective
by Rastonbury on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:40AM
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Which particular medications are keeping these people destitute? Which producers of important goods in poor countries are enforcing IP restrictions? In practice, I don't think IP laws are keeping developing countries poor or harming their economic growth, causes of such issues are much more macro
Re:Effective altruism is not effective
by TaylorAlexander on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:25PM
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Here’s two articles that discuss these points:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/26/gates-foundati...
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Vandana_Shiva_on_the_Contempo...