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In terms of mis-spent resources: i.e. opportunity costs. If the OLPC project is in fact a failure, consider how many mosquito nets could have been bought with t
by JabavuAdams 17y ago
In terms of mis-spent resources: i.e. opportunity costs. If the OLPC project is in fact a failure, consider how many mosquito nets could have been bought with the funds.*
* Yes, I know people / companies would not have donated the same amount of $ for a non-sexy cause.
- notauser 17y agoIt seems more efficient to try and raise economic activity to the point where foreign aid is no longer required; the OLPC was an attempt to do this through jump starting technology education. The areas for which it was intended did not need mosquito nets - places such as rural Mexico. These places have power and running water. While saving lives is a worthwhile goal, saving them just so they can carry on being perpetually dependent on foreign aid seems to be pretty unfair on both the nations giving aid and the nations receiving it.
- GiraffeNecktie 17y agoA failure is hardly the same thing as a tragedy. The words are not interchangeable. People working toward the same end using different methods is not a tragedy even if one method is "better" than another.