My experience in other developing-world places where nearly-free foreign money has allowed a few people to short-circuit the civilized-society-building process

My experience in other developing-world places where nearly-free foreign money has allowed a few people to short-circuit the civilized-society-building process (e.g. tourist areas like Bali) is that, culturally, many people will begin to look at foreigners as nothing more than walking money machines. They then develop many of the same tendencies of the nouveau riche in developed countries, namely, having no clue how to wisely build wealth and instead buying things that they think give them status among their peers. It's not a big jump from there to not feeling bad about just outright tricking foreigners out of their money. They've already been dehumanized, and are incomprehensibly rich anyway. When I was in Tunisia, there were several times when ordinary teenagers, not beggars or thieves, just outright shouted at me across the street, "Hey, American! Give me money! Just one dinar!" Some way to start a conversation. Often, they simply don't know that there is an alternative -- their lives have never had the expectation that things can, should, and will get markedly better if certain rules and virtues are practiced, as is true for many of us on Hacker News. Anything like this project that can just make people aware of a better way to live is a good project.