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I think "self-anointed do-gooder" captures the idea perfectly. Many of these folks want to help Africans and many low-income countries, but arguments on Hacker
by churchill 4y ago
I think "self-anointed do-gooder" captures the idea perfectly. Many of these folks want to help Africans and many low-income countries, but arguments on Hacker News and government decrees don't help the poor.
Only free trade, preferably between rich and poor countries, can lift the poor out of poverty. Initially, it starts in a way you might consider "unfair" but soon, that unskilled labor learns better skills and starts to negotiate better wages.
So, like I said, many of these "do-gooders" sincerely want to help Africans but their approach hurts even more.
- bloodyplonker22 4y agoIn addition, many of these virtue signalers are not donating their money or time to help with anything that they virtue signal on.
- th0ma5 4y agoYou see this in conservative virtue signaling so much, hardly any increase in adoption rates, not staying home if they're sick, etc
- wardedVibe 4y agoIt's complicated, because some of our best examples of recently successfully developing economies (Japan, Korea, China) actually had pretty heavy state intervention and tariffs to protect growing industries.