Normal_Anomaly comments on So you say you're an altruist... - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jhuffman 06 April 2011 06:22:06PM 0 points [-]

My entire point was that the problem cannot be fixed in this way. Pouring money into a region that doesn't have a functioning economy doesn't create an economy, in fact it may even make a self-sustainable economy impossible. Meanwhile, it takes money out of an economy that is functioning which amounts to a net loss to world productivity.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 06 April 2011 07:33:24PM 0 points [-]

That makes more sense. I don't have the economics knowledge to answer it either way.