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I've long stopped believing that money helps improve the world. People do.

If you throw money at a problem, often times you create a dependency on that aid, and other times you just end up with even more mouths to feed.

It's not that monetary aid is always 100% ineffective. It's just that once you tally up the bad and the good, you're left with something that's in the red.



Money is an extremely effective social organization and incentive system. It's a way to get people to behave in a way you want to. The right investments can help change the world.


And you pay people with money.




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