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#61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers

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The Problem With Scale

Gif directly has this nice line: We have this very well teacher, man to fish and he'll never be hungry or whatever. Most people already know how to fish. They just need to be able to have all the materials and they're often running. And yet, I think you mentioned this already, but there is something very strange about the fact that very large donors, for instance in the US, who might commit on the order of billions of dollars to a foundation and then name. But as far as I can tell, often die without having figured out how to give away half of that money.

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