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This is the same mistake the OLPC people made. When you're broke and struggling to feed yourself, you aren't going to waste precious calories cranking to charge
by Kye 3y ago
This is the same mistake the OLPC people made. When you're broke and struggling to feed yourself, you aren't going to waste precious calories cranking to charge a battery. You're going to bum enough off someone to have a calorie-rich drink while you charge in a coffee shop or find a public outlet you can sneak some juice off of.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoI met a number of people involved in OLPC and every single one of them was an insufferably smug tool with a massive white-savior complex. Kids in Africa didn't need a hand-crankable laptop. They needed clean water to survive infancy, light to be able to study by, and to not be captured and turned into soldiers.
- sambazi 3y ago> light to be able to study by this was the point of olpc?
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>every single one of them was an insufferably smug tool with a massive white-savior complex. Silicon Valley nailed it.[1] These tech people thinking they're "saving Africa" with crankable laptops are just like the former Crypto pundits you'd see roaming around here in the comments preaching how crypto will save Africa from poverty. [1] https://youtu.be/ETi_UpG8D_k?si=2EgVaMer-_bFOg2M https://youtu.be/ETi_UpG8D_k?si=2EgVaMer-_bFOg2M