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Organizations like this often simply end up as graft and PR. I'm with Peterson: clean up your own room first.

fogzen 9y ago
My room is clean. You’re right that non-profit or charitable organizations sometimes waste money or aren’t effective. If you have ideas on how to improve that, or improve transparency and efficiency then please share.
- andreygrehov 9y ago
  One of my favorite quotes: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime".
  - fogzen 9y ago
    I agree education can have a huge impact. If you have ideas on how to improve education, please share!
    - o2l 9y ago
      The importance of education is unparalleled in the current state of world. Looking at the unrest in recent college pass outs, I would prefer if we could bring Apprenticeship back. In current times we have a variation of it called internship, but for most people they still have to go through a full fledged college education to become eligible for that internship. Of course, Apprenticeship is not the answer for all fields but it would be good if companies also got into the business of educating people ( for money ) but treating them not just as a student but more like an apprentice. An alternative would be to have collaboration between businesses and educational institutions to reduce the gap between learning and applying what you learned. This can be relatively easily applied in developed nations and a bit hard to apply in developing / underdeveloped countries. I graduated 3 years ago from a college in India. Luckily, I was interested in my field enough to start researching about how things we learned in college, worked in real life. But for most of my fellow classmates, it was just for the sake of getting a degree and supposedly becoming employable right after passing out. So when they actually passed out, the world was quite different than what they had expected. Those are my 2 cents. YCombinator too believes in the power of education. This was posted in September 2016 - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#education https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#education
      - ipince 9y ago
        Thanks for sharing! BTW, I think your terminology of "passing out" for graduating college is confusing (at least for Americans?). I've never heard the term used in that way. Passing out is more commonly used to mean fainting or falling asleep.
  - Franciscouzo 9y ago
    More like: "Teach humanity how to fish, and they will deplete the oceans".
firefoxd 9y ago
To provide some context he is referring to Jordan Peterson https://youtu.be/BBR5v89L6gk https://youtu.be/BBR5v89L6gk
- fogzen 9y ago
  Thank you! :)
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kiliantics 9y ago
You can't clean your room with a dirty mop. The system itself is what is harmful and only system-wide change will help. Individual action is nice and all but it can't solve the real underlying problems.

My room is clean. You’re right that non-profit or charitable organizations sometimes waste money or aren’t effective. If you have ideas on how to improve that, or improve transparency and efficiency then please share.

andreygrehov 9y ago
One of my favorite quotes: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime".
- fogzen 9y ago
  I agree education can have a huge impact. If you have ideas on how to improve education, please share!
  - o2l 9y ago
    The importance of education is unparalleled in the current state of world. Looking at the unrest in recent college pass outs, I would prefer if we could bring Apprenticeship back. In current times we have a variation of it called internship, but for most people they still have to go through a full fledged college education to become eligible for that internship. Of course, Apprenticeship is not the answer for all fields but it would be good if companies also got into the business of educating people ( for money ) but treating them not just as a student but more like an apprentice. An alternative would be to have collaboration between businesses and educational institutions to reduce the gap between learning and applying what you learned. This can be relatively easily applied in developed nations and a bit hard to apply in developing / underdeveloped countries. I graduated 3 years ago from a college in India. Luckily, I was interested in my field enough to start researching about how things we learned in college, worked in real life. But for most of my fellow classmates, it was just for the sake of getting a degree and supposedly becoming employable right after passing out. So when they actually passed out, the world was quite different than what they had expected. Those are my 2 cents. YCombinator too believes in the power of education. This was posted in September 2016 - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#education https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#education
    - ipince 9y ago
      Thanks for sharing! BTW, I think your terminology of "passing out" for graduating college is confusing (at least for Americans?). I've never heard the term used in that way. Passing out is more commonly used to mean fainting or falling asleep.
- Franciscouzo 9y ago
  More like: "Teach humanity how to fish, and they will deplete the oceans".

firefoxd 9y ago

To provide some context he is referring to Jordan Peterson https://youtu.be/BBR5v89L6gk https://youtu.be/BBR5v89L6gk

fogzen 9y ago
Thank you! :)

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kiliantics 9y ago

You can't clean your room with a dirty mop. The system itself is what is harmful and only system-wide change will help. Individual action is nice and all but it can't solve the real underlying problems.