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Tyler G Hall

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Director of Communications for GiveDirectly, a nonprofit delivering cash transfers to people in extreme poverty

Help kill "teach a man to fish"

I work at GiveDirectly, a nonprofit delivering cash transfers to people in poverty. We need your creative ideas to solve a problem: how to convince the world of the wisdom of giving money directly. Will you submit to our proverb contest? The most common critique of giving cash without conditions...

Feb 28, 2023•24

Tyler G Hall

Director of Communications for GiveDirectly, a nonprofit delivering cash transfers to people in extreme poverty

Tyler G Hall — LessWrong

Tyler G Hall

Message

Director of Communications for GiveDirectly, a nonprofit delivering cash transfers to people in extreme poverty

Help kill "teach a man to fish"

Feb 28, 2023•24

Tyler G Hall

Director of Communications for GiveDirectly, a nonprofit delivering cash transfers to people in extreme poverty

Help kill "teach a man to fish"

Tyler G Hall

The most common critique of giving cash without conditions to people in poverty is a fear of dependency, which comes in the form of: “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.”

Our NGO, GiveDirectly, has tried to disabuse folks of this paternalistic idea by showing that often people in poverty know how to fish but cannot afford the boat. Or

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