Trumpenomics

[89th]

Personally I'm glad I'm unable to see videos of the people who have died and will die due to the abrupt removal of USAID support. Seeing 4K videos of them would make it much harder to me to be ok with the devastating impact of an abrupt withdrawal instead of a prudent adjustment with planning involved. The earth was overpopulated anyway!

[LuFins Dad]

You can prevent those deaths, 89th. $15K will build a well that could save hundreds of children’s lives. Even if you can’t afford an entire well, you can help contribute. Say $50 per month? That’s less than a daily coffee! If you don’t, then those kids are dead because of you.

[89th]

Actually not a bad idea. Unfortunately I just bought an iPhone so my heroism will have to wait until 2027.

[jon-nyc]

Where is Peter Singer when you need him?

[LuFins Dad]

Then they are dead and it’s your fault.

[89th]

Hey I posted in an online forum multiple times that I was against the abrupt shuttering of USAID, so I did my part. I don't even wear a cape!

[Horace]

The scale of money in the Bill Gates trust, among others, beggars my belief that there's such low hanging fruit for donations that an average joe can write a check for a thousand dollars and save a bunch of lives.

[jon-nyc]

According to Givewell (the effective altruism org founded by a couple of Bridgewater traders) the marginal cost of saving a life is about 8k. It varies over time but last time I checked buying mosquito nets was the cheapest way to save a life.

(It’s always some sort of non-pharmaceutical intervention to reduce infectious disease in Africa.)

[Horace]

malaria nets. Yep.

[jon-nyc]

This might become a useful economic index as Trump sovietizes our official economic data.

[LuFins Dad]

[jon-nyc]

Yeah, the article went into that. This has all the usual suspects, food dyes, chemical this and that, an entire quarry of sodium, etc.