I’m interested in your take on the USAid funding cuts. It only made the news briefly where I am amid a long list of disruptions that have wreaked havoc closer to home, but I can’t help thinking this has to be one of the worst things that happened on a global scale?
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Imperious_melange@lemmy.world 3 days agoI agree with your analysis. I do still find it disturbing how silent people are about genocides in other locations such as Sudan, Nigeria, or even Myanmar. Not to speak of the Uyghur people of China. I find most this location to be of people mostly repeating what they were told by someone else and not aware of the world as it is. I wouldn’t say the CCP today had much to do with communism and is at its core selective towards that which benefits it and against anything that is not, that is they could not care less about political philosophy, religion, economic systems or any other stories crafted by man. If it is against them it is bad, if it is in worship of them it is good.
tunetardis@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Imperious_melange@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s bad and also good. A lot of funding wasn’t reaching the people in need and finding its way into peoples pockets. Some funding was enabling poverty aka it was treating symptoms and not causes. Some funding was actually helping people and now they are suffering without it, namely helping to provide medicine and treatment. You see this in lots of places with charities where only a small fraction of the money collected actually goes to whatever the charity is for.
If anyone wants to help Africa they should invest in business and production. There is more than enough potential here and the fastest way to improve the lives of people isn’t just handing them money, it’s employing them and paying them well. If USaid ever cared there would still be businesses operating without any financial input after they left. All that money and there’s nothing to show for it and that is by design.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I don’t think only investing into business and production is what would help. If those businesses get taken over by venture capitalists or go into stocks, then the motive shifts towards profit, rather than people.
It’d help more if those businesses were worker co-operatives, and their people worked together to establish community exchanges, and the workers use the profits of cooperatives to:
- save for crises, ensuring that even then, workers still can thrive.
- establish more businesses in different sectors, being all horizontally federated.
- grow funds to outcompete capitalist structures, to take them over and turn them into other worker-owned cooperatives, and so the ball keeps on rolling.
- train themselves to defend one another, and learn each other’s jobs. This in case scabs (strike-breakers) or cops arrive and arrest some workers.
Especially farms, mines, woodlands, – anything involving natural resources and land – would be crucial.
Sure, in this age of digitalisation, a lot happens online, too. But even then, at its root, for data centres you need land, water, and resources. For computers, you need minerals, from mines. For cables, you need boats of hardy materials. And for those labourers, you need farms and woodlands to supply them and their clothing.
tunetardis@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Thanks for that. It set me straight on a few things.
What do you think about microloans then (kiva, etc.)? Is that a better approach? I know it’s more grassroots than a gov program, and I don’t know how much of an effect they have in the grand scheme of things.
devolution@lemmy.world 3 days ago
no one cares because they’re fucking brown. That’s the honest truth. Sad to say.
Imperious_melange@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In essence yeah. Although the Uyghur people are not brown but similarly people do not care.
Maven@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
A lot of tankies will tell you that the Uyghur genocide isnt even happening and isnt real.
Imperious_melange@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Or the suspicious surplus of human organs in China over the past few decades is totally normal. Yes I know.
Eldritch@piefed.world 3 days ago
100%
You can point directly to people and individuals impacted. And they will deny it to your face or find a way to attack the messenger without addressing the message. They have the word of the state. And as we all know. No State anywhere has ever lied or misled. Or any non Western State at least. /s