simplemath__

your appeal to authority is naked

OK, i'll bite.

Give me an impossible to abuse welfare system

Is poverty a moral failing?

You're getting downvoted... but this did happen, and is likely to blame for polio's continued presence in western pakistan.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc...

exactly!

People can't look past the egregious* waste of money to see that it isnt a waste at all, even if Nigeria should have repaid the debt or Japan should have forgiven it.

None of that matters! The result matters! Eradicating polio matters!

>shithole

you're tipping your hand a little much

SO the penalty should be death, then?

edit: you dropped that "Sure, they abuse them now". I saw it.

Obviously there was something in the way, maybe bad blood between Japan and Nigeria. Who knows? Who cares?

If the Gates Found. is engaging in a bit of 'dollar diplomacy' here, that's even extra value, IMO.

This is high-test, globally impactful philanthropy, and deserves none of the cynical, socio-economic scrutiny it's receiving here.

His answer demonstrates that statist barriers on the market are the true causes of the problem?

How does his answer demonstrate that?

To all the commenters too busy being aghast at giving money to a government to read the article:

>Nigeria’s debt to Japan is the result of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) provided by the Japanese government in 2014 for increased polio eradication. efforts.

>The country has made great strides in its efforts to eliminate the disease thanks to this funding.

>Nigeria did not record a wild case of polio from July 2014 to August 2016, when two cases were reported.

Presumably, the Gates Foundation wants to encourage state partnerships from nations like Japan in the service of eradicating solved diseases, regardless of a recipient nation's ability or willingness to settle incurred debts.

Money well spent.

and what do we do when people abuse those systems? let them die?

When's the Colacoin ICO and can I send you 10 million dollars?

>What distinguishes cartels from roving bandits that pivot to stationary?

You're asking the wrong question, I think. The 64 trillion dollar question, IMO: "what allows market incumbents to remain stationary"

The 'blame', as ever, lies in human frailty. Avarice and greed. Alternatively, you could look at avarice and greed as malformed extensions of self-preservation instinct.

Bad actors are omnipresent and relying on market forces to expel them from markets is like trying to pray cancer away.

>I wonder if there is any collusion among the top 2000 addresses

I would bet my life on it.

All crypto markets have always been shallow and rife with manipulation.

It's still almost a total free-for-all.