Gates Foundation Is Rattled by Trump’s Threat to Its Mission
The Gates Foundation invests significantly more money in the darkest regions of the corporate sphere than it donates to all its charities combined. It holds $1.5 billion of stock in the very drug companies whose pricing policies are restricting the flow to Africa of medicines that the foundation is supposedly trying to get there.
Douglas Rushkoff • Life Inc.
Now, the GoFundMe and DonorsChoose thing is closely related, but it gets its own throughline. These platforms emerge to seemingly supplement gaps in the public safety net for things like education and health care. But instead, they’re in a kind of enabling feedback loop: instead of your taxes ensuring that kids have desks and cancer patients can ge... See more
The Problems of Modern Philanthropy
However, the ambassadors quietly explained to me that their job wasn’t really to find the best policy investments for the world. They were there to highlight their government’s particular policy focus, which was often ideas that played well at home, regardless of how efficient (or not) they were at solving global problems.
Bjorn Lomborg • Best Things First
And in addition to throwing America’s government operations, trading system, and foreign relations into chaos, Trump is already causing chaos on a more granular, local level. He gave an order to open up two California dams, apparently based on the notion that this would make California a wetter place and decrease wildfire risk. Unfortunately, that’... See more