alt Hacker NewsIf these figure represent actual deaths (big if), those people will have died because literally nobody on earth was willing to pay to keep them alive--yourself included.
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rightbyte • today at 2:59 PM
A gigantic rug pull of bread and medicine is really not where we should blame the poor.
evantbyrne • today at 3:27 PM
Not everyone is looking to save a buck at anyone's expense. Don't ever make the mistake of thinking we're the same.
lmohseni • today at 3:07 PM
But wait, I do pay taxes? By you logic, no policy choice can ever cause harm because the responsibility is always redistributable to several billion bystanders. Pretty convenient!
If a pillar is removed from a building with no warning, no one would claim that its collapse was from the unwillingness of anyone else to put a new one in place.
If DOGE had announced a 2-year phaseout of humanitarian aid, governments and NGOs might have had time to fill the gap. Doing so arbitrarily and abruptly was simply cruel.