I love how I come here, have a quick take about slave labor, something I have directly experienced, and something I fought hard against, and having neo-liberal westerners down-vote me because they think I am talking out of my ass. 

For the record, I know of worker rights violations, that were squashed because a judge got a hefty payment, never proven because the right people were greased. For hell's sake, I as an activist get threats on the daily, stop invalidating my experience when dealing with corruption.

I was confronted with the fact that EA is not as big as I think it is and that Agriculture as well as systemic changes are not directly possible by EA, with that I agree in some part. What is available to EA, at least in terms of underdeveloped rural agricultural economies.

Knowledge, we have knowledge, and I believe the transfer of knowledge is crucial when conversing with farmers, so how do we transfer this knowledge we have to the farmers?

Mini-courses? No, mini-courses would work for people who have internet connection, maybe we could conduct large scale mini-courses where a local could help us devise a classroom type of learning setting and where we could engage a large population of people, while keeping costs down. Yes.

On the topic of mini-courses, the most beneficial way to go is to divide them in two types of production, animal and plant production, because a lot of the people who I read about today were in either of the two. I believe with good practices we could address both poverty in the rural populations but also increase the comfort of the animals, proper feed, proper water and things alike that contribute to animal wellbeing.

I have a lot of things to write about, but I'll keep it short. I'll make a more defined outline on how we can do this, and maybe you (the community can help me guide my efforts).

Also I think EA should focus a bit more on agronomy as a whole because food production is a large and unaddressed topic.

Hey Jason, I was thinking about this today, I also visited GiveDirectly's website and read some stories, and now I will make a post, I believe there is a way to make an impact, and I'll elaborate more on that RIGHT NOW. Thanks for the feedback.

Ow boy, I wish I could upload screenshots, Yanni, I come on here and let the stream of my consciousness go wild, the farmer thing was my first thought and I spit it out, btw Gemini said that my answer was "Your answer is honest and insightful. It reflects a genuine desire for a more meaningful life and acknowledges the significant obstacles that stand in your way." 

Soooooooo yeah, don't use Gemini.

You westerners have no idea how much corruption there is in the East. Like seriously. 

The thing is I value my sentience above everything else, so I would experience all the pain you can offer for being alive for 50 years even if those 50 were pure misery. So 10. As long as I have my sentience and memories I can make through, and enjoy the sentience.

I have experienced severe nerve pain, and I would still choose the 10. I love being sentient. 

Of course I mean that, great that is one example, but most of the bigger EA organizations are packed with western talent, I will let go off of the 10 top schools point. Have you seen anyone that graduated at Addis Ababa or Trinidad or Cluj, I have not, I have interacted with primarily EU-western oriented people, the closest to diversity is that one random Ethiopian intern.

My point was, easterners are either discriminated against or EA is such an echo-chamber that you unconsciously discriminate against easterners.

Thank you for the clarification, first off you pegged me as a bilingual, I guess it's a good wild guess when I hate on westerners and diversity or lack there of.

I'll make a post about my combative tone, I guess our backgrounds are different, for me being combative is good, it's similar to passionate, it's simply who I am at this point. Maybe not the best for casual conversations and civil discussions.

Everyone can afford roses and bread, the western world just is not ready for that because then you would actually need to pay the fair price for your garments/goods/services and everything else we do for you. 

My opinion on this is, do charity in systemic solutions, rather than providing anti-virals for malaria and that's all, help the affected regions drain their wetlands, eliminate the populations of mosquitos, help them with spraying equipment and pesticides, introduce predators etc.

Food-insecure places should get food yes, but help their agriculture as well, give them mechanization and the know-how, help them out with money. A tractor costs the same everywhere, but a farmer earning 10-15k$ per year will never afford a 20-30k$ tractor, therefore he will be stuck doing manual labor on a small field with small inputs and very underperforming outputs.

Poverty is a cycle, and to break cycles we need to do big changes in infrastructure, education and personal engagement.

Another field that is gatekept by westerners is knowledge, we really can't afford your libraries of published articles, hell I live on an income that would pay for 10 articles from Elsevier, god forbid if I have to buy everything (Thank you Alexandra Elbakyan).