Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, etc. etc.
Far better aid would be teaching people how to recover for themselves, providing food aid only in the interim while the new agriculture and/or industry is getting up and running.
If the redistributionists were serious, what they would want to distribute is the ability to fish, or to be productive in other ways. Knowledge is one of the few things that can be distributed to people without reducing the amount held by others.
That would better serve the interests of the poor, but it would not serve the interests of politicians who want to exercise power, and to get the votes of people who are dependent on them.
it would not serve the interests of politicians who want to exercise power, and to get the votes of people who are dependent on them.
this is the reason for all the destruction and division on the US right now. Because isolated, suffering, miserable people will beg for government control so they don't starve.
the more dependent we are, the better the tyrants like it
Food aid = destroying local economies and making everyone dependent on powdered milk.
I've grown tired of hearing how giving people fish will save the world.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, etc. etc.
Far better aid would be teaching people how to recover for themselves, providing food aid only in the interim while the new agriculture and/or industry is getting up and running.
- Thomas Sowell, The Fallacy of Redistribution
this is the reason for all the destruction and division on the US right now. Because isolated, suffering, miserable people will beg for government control so they don't starve.
the more dependent we are, the better the tyrants like it
progressives never do the math on this, either