Peter Buffet Preaches It

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html?_r=0

I'm really not calling for an end to capitalism; I'm calling for humanism.

Often I hear people say, "if only they had what we have" (clean water, access to health products and free markets, better education, safer living conditions). Yes, these are all important. But no "charitable" (I hate that word) intervention can solve any of these issues. It can only kick the can down the road.

My wife and I know we don't have the answers, but we do know how to listen. As we learn, we will continue to support conditions for systemic change.

It's time for a new operating system. Not a 2.0 or a 3.0, but something built from the ground up. New code.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it. Foundation dollars should be the best "risk capital" out there.

There are people working hard at showing examples of other ways to live in a functioning society that truly creates greater prosperity for all (and I don't mean more people getting to have more stuff).

Money should be spent trying out concepts that shatter current structures and systems that have turned much of the world into one vast market. Is progress really Wi-Fi on every street corner? No. It's when no 13-year-old girl on the planet gets sold for sex. But as long as most folks are patting themselves on the back for charitable acts, we've got a perpetual poverty machine.

It's an old story; we really need a new one.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I'd really like to see what he's referring to with "people working hard at showing examples of other ways to live in a functioning society that truly creates greater prosperity for all." That's kind of a dick thing to just leave there without elaborating on.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I'd like some of whatever he's smoking. It appears to be the good shit. Interesting to see where he goes with this.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah, he appears to be one of those cracked-out radicals calling for a systemic change rather than just spot-treatment.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Yeah, he appears to be one of those cracked-out radicals calling for a systemic change rather than just spot-treatment.

I know! It's crazy! He actually wants new and better things instead of just shining up the broken junk we use now! O.O Cats and dogs fucking in the streets, I tell you.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah, he appears to be one of those cracked-out radicals calling for a systemic change rather than just spot-treatment.

I know! It's crazy! He actually wants new and better things instead of just shining up the broken junk we use now! O.O Cats and dogs fucking in the streets, I tell you.

I know, right?