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Rachel Pieh Jones
Personal blog · djiboutijones.comculturewriting
Rachel Pieh Jones's personal blog at djiboutijones.com covers culture and writing. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rachel Pieh Jones's posts on donating used clothing and shoes to Africa, which argue such donations can harm local economies. Commenters cite them as support for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/02/dont-send-your-used-shoes-to-africa-or-maybe-do-send-them/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-07
What Hacker News says?
I agree that it's tough to measure "success," but at least it would be presumably easy to measure failure. If we see exactly what opponents claim will happen, it would suggest a more strict implementation might be worse. My concern is that with this we're likely looking at an even worse version of the problems seen with sending shoes to Africa [1]. Over the duration of this experiment, it's quite possible you'll cre…
Comment linking /2014/02/dont-send-your-used-shoes-to-africa-or-maybe-do-send-them/
on “We're officially launching UBI”I wouldn't wish employment in the garment industry on anyone, besides; we've already destroyed the local garment/craft economies in many impoverished countries by sending our old clothes to them for free. http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2009/03/donating_cl... http://www.djiboutijones.com/2014/02/dont-send-your-used-sho...
Comment linking /2014/02/dont-send-your-used-shoes-to-africa-or-maybe-do-send-them/
on “A robotic sewing machine could throw garment workers out of a job”>This line of logic argues against all donation. No it doesn't. You do need to be careful about how goods and services are donated to avoid making the situation worse. http://www.djiboutijones.com/2014/02/dont-send-your-used-sho...
Comment linking /2014/02/dont-send-your-used-shoes-to-africa-or-maybe-do-send-them/
on “Watsi uses crowdfunding to provide healthcare, but are patients better off?”