Charitable colonialism

[mookiemookie]

Often I hear people say, “if only they had what we have” (clean water, access to health products and free markets, better education, safer living conditions). Yes, these are all important. But no “charitable” (I hate that word) intervention can solve any of these issues. It can only kick the can down the road.

So the implication in the article is "why spend anything on charity because it's all pointless anyways and like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble".

Mr. Buffett is obviously a man of means, so if he's got the answer to the structural problems with charity (which I will agree there's many), then why doesn't he organize a charity that attempts to make a structural difference in society that makes real change instead of applies band-aids to the problem? Treat the disease instead of the symptom.

This comes across as a whine.