U.S. Malaria Donations Saved Almost 2M African Children

Post by eru » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

NiklasMort wrote: post #76

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Please take family planning into account: empirically parents aim for a specific number of offspring. Infant mortality does not usually change that target much, but it changes how many pregnancies are needed to reach it. Thus: two million children saved, is two million pregnancies less. (To a first order approximation. As people get richer, all kinds of things change over time.) You are right in some sense: people ar…

Trust me I am not a hardhearted bastard but from what I have seen in the world, despite being absolute subjective ,I can tell you that the biggest problem with population is caused by religion and old beliefs. And this ain't specific to third world countries, there are enough big families (4+ kids) from certain ethnic groups in Europe/US. Your pregnancy point is wrong though, so you say you save resources due to not…

Post by eru » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 8:06 PM UTC

madiathomas wrote: post #75

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Alas, if only it was even a zero-sum game were eg Africa only loses what the USA steals from them. The reality is far bleaker---but also more hopeful: rich countries don't benefit from (causing) bad conditions in poor countries, at least nearly not as much as the bad conditions cost the poor countries.

Instability is profitable to rich countries. That's a well-known fact. Those bad conditions were artificially craeted by colonisers. Colonisers who still refuse to exit Africa because the only way they know how to make money is through exploiting African countries. 'The best time to buy is when there is blood on the streets' - Baron Rothschild.

Post by madiathomas » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 10:19 PM UTC

eru wrote: post #83

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Instability is profitable to rich countries. That's a well-known fact. Those bad conditions were artificially craeted by colonisers. Colonisers who still refuse to exit Africa because the only way they know how to make money is through exploiting African countries. 'The best time to buy is when there is blood on the streets' - Baron Rothschild.

I don't know, lots more companies are investigating in stable China than they ever did when Mao's reigned with open terror. And also more than in less stable countries. India also got more investments since the liberalisation in the 90s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_Ind... ). (I know less about Africa---but I suspect relatively stable and rich South Africa gets the lion's share of investm…