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Originally Posted by Dilettante
I can only suspect that there will be a combination of the two at work, and point out that the line between the two is not always distinguishable.
Charity, even from the purest of motives, often creates connections that, in the future, turn out to be profitable or politically beneficial.
Likewise, there are times when the wisest course of business or the most self-interested political policy is to provide relief to someone in distress.
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I agree that both factors are at play. We are all human after all. But the problem i have is that these sorts of policies i mention here do not have a strong record of success, and ultimately leads to even more suffering. We see this currently in the food crisis where people have been forced out of subsistence farming in favor of corporate factory mono-culture farming and now that prices have begun to skyrocket for various reasons, they no longer can feed themselves. In latin america we see them turning rapidly away from these policies as well.
Andrew