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> But let's also remember that fixing an evil eventually means that we are committing an evil repeatedly in the interim. Tick, tick - 4 people were just born.
by mncharity 8y ago
> But let's also remember that fixing an evil eventually means that we are committing an evil repeatedly in the interim.
Tick, tick - 4 people were just born. 250 people will be born in the next minute. 360k people will be born today. And also tomorrow. 2.5M this week. 130M this year. In about 6 years, almost all of them will hit school. School. Schools that are pervasively wretched. Can you make them less wretched? You have six years to change the world. For each 4 years your improvements are delayed, your window misses half a billion people. Good luck. Tick, tock.
One thing I took away from working on One Laptop Per Child, is that few appreciate the breathtakingly high cost of time.
- forapurpose 8y agoVery well put. And don't forget those kids in school right now. Do we just write off everyone in high school, for example?
- mncharity 8y ago> don't forget those kids in school right now People seem to have difficulty thinking about, and empathizing with, large numbers of people. The "one death is a tragedy, but ten thousand deaths is a statistic" observation. So it's a challenge to craft descriptions that provide some sense of scale, while retaining an emotional connection. Narrowing scope can help.