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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 27
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      It’s interesting how much people simply don’t understand distribution at scale. News: Massive pile of food commodity needs to be destroyed Them: Why can’t they just donate it to the needy and hungry? Me: Uhhh, where do I begin?

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    2. erica robles-anderson‏ @fstflofscholars Apr 28
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      Sorry to be the gadfly but distribution is a political question. We could deploy the national guard to handle distribution. A military organization is a logistics institution. We are choosing a political (moral) path. We are single tracking the trolley problem.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 28
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      Sure we could. My point is most people don’t even seem to realize that it *is* a problem at all. You can’t have opinions on how to solve a problem you don’t even recognize as existing.

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    4. erica robles-anderson‏ @fstflofscholars Apr 28
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      I fully concur. It’s such a powerful moment to take that moral insight and tell a story about politics, systems, capacities, and distribution.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 28
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      Amartya Sen won the Nobel in part for studying this type of problem... distributional famines in Bengal under the Raj

      10:52 AM - 28 Apr 2020
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        2. erica robles-anderson‏ @fstflofscholars Apr 28
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          Indeed he did. I wonder about how to tell stories about these types of problems in ways that connect with journalistic frames or other fast-cycle forms of influence. Perhaps communication is a meta-distribution problem? 😉

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        3. erica robles-anderson‏ @fstflofscholars Apr 28
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          erica robles-anderson Retweeted  🌰Build Soil: plant one million edible chestnuts!

          I really appreciate this kind of thinking:https://twitter.com/buildsoil/status/1180601599535661061?s=21 …

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           🌰Build Soil: plant one million edible chestnuts! @BuildSoil
          A question that we should keep asking ourselves is why are these already not planted? even bigger why were people hungry in this country when there were 4 billion American chestnuts in the US forest? literally why were people starving in the United States?a rhetorical question
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