Trumpenomics

[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.