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Join "food not bombs" then

seems redistributionary, not actually a solution i’d just do Effective Altruism if i wanted to trick myself into thinking i’m solving problems

Economics consists of wealth creation and wealth redistribution, right? There's not some sort of third thing? Either make as much money as possible and do effective altruism, or make the infrastructure that makes better effective altruism possible. Seems comprehensive

redistribution is *not* creation, it is waste

That doesn't seem like a valid axiom to me. Do you mean state redistribution specifically? That could be argued, but isn't what I'm talking about.

no, simple “as needed” distribution, without any kind of telos or plan anything the contemporary left might endorse *only makes social problems worse* because they have institutions to perpetuate the test is: can the left stomach it? If yes, it will perpetuate poverty

Ah, I see. You're talking about the way "charitable" orgs tend to become bloated and useless sinecure programs for administrators. That's true too, but I think the grassroots orgs run by the far left are probably different than the orgs run by state liberals.

no, grassroots orgs are *also* institutions, and have no actual criteria for success that would obsolete them- “poverty” is perpetual, and the perpetuation is poverty is necessary for the activist identity, who people those orgs they *perpetuate* poverty