The UX of direct cash giving is that it preserves dignity of recipient. Backend justification is that it is antifragile to donor ignorance
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Replying to @vgr
The cases where you can beat cash (deworming) all seem to be in areas where there are missing institutions (primary healthcare in this case)
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Replying to @vgr
I suspect other case where you can beat cash is when distribution chain is kleptocratic monopsony. In which case gunrunning is likely better
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@vgr usually it's the other way around - direct wins because non-cash chain is klepto/lossy.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BillSeitz No I mean when klepto would steal cash, guns are better1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
@BillSeitz Cf currency conversion shenanigans, bank control
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