Its way "easier" to drill wells in Africa than attempting to address the systematic rot of our society.

1. There are people already working on the ground in Africa teaching people to harvest their own rainwater, slow/sink water in their landscapes, and restore a healthy water cycle. This is where his money could be going.

Drilling wells is the equivalent of treating symptoms of a problem which doesn't solve the root cause of degraded ecosystems. Wells will dry up, not be maintained, and the people will be worse off in the end if they don't address the underlying issues of lanscape degradation and desertification.

2. "Solving homelessness" is a complex issue that requires local solutions that can't be fixed by the national state. Its similar to the open borders conundrum- if you have valuable benefits being offered then you can't have a free flow of new beneficiaries.

Its like pouring water into a cracked bucket. If one city for example offers housing and free shit then the rest of that state will bus their homeless population to the city. Then multiply that across a whole country and it will never scale.

You just have yet another bleeding heart city overrun by homeless without the resources to fund caring for them. They tax harder and the productive people leave, and the cycle continues..

There are small scale solutions but until we get rid of nation states and return to a federated level of govt then nothing will change. Socialism doesn't work on a large scale, but there is a case to be made for the village and tribal level. We naturally want to look out for each other on a personal level, but the state has perverted that natural inclination.

People all have their own gifts to offer, all of which might not create a monetary return- so its up to those people to self govern on a Dunbar level number and get back to barter and small scale v4v

-Steps off soapbox, thanks for listening to my fed talk