Funny that you mention this and I agree. Asking some of their leadership how they have solved the problem as their budget increased by 10x over the last 10 years, (the problem is far worse) and then asking where they got their funding was the insight that they needed to realize broken money was the root and they were a cog in that wheel. Like you, many people want to make a difference and help but had no idea that their actions were at odds with what they wanted to see. That was the breakthrough, at least for some in org to look at it differently. Those people in org are now Bitcoin Maxi’s and we’ll see where it takes us/them. One person at a time!!
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Bitcoin is a bottom up movement, while Save the Children is a corporate machine. I admire the work Obi is doing with nostr:nprofile1qqswq087qywczsjtkc9p960tpjcvn35gcdr39smefsr49cr33vmfausppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0r3ndwr so I strongly hope this will not compromise the project.
What you are saying, Jeff, is encouraging. I would not thought that possible when I quit a few years a go. The top leadership was mostly from the corporate sector (like Unilever, Starbucks) or (ex)politicians using the organisation as a platform to further their next carrier move. And the funding, as you mention, is mainly governments using aid projects to further their (geo)political goals around the world. Local employees doing the actual work were rarely given higher management positions, while Western expats were shipped in on well paid short term contracts with minimal cultural and contextual understanding, making bad decisions over and over again. I oversaw and brought in funding for projects for tens of millions of dollars yearly (with a 15% annual growth expectation), but was not able to change anything fundamental about how the organisation operated. After five years my personal and professional integrity was totally compromised, so I decided to leave. I had lost most of my belief in humanity, and was at my most nihilistic point in life. Understanding bitcoin, helped me drag my self out of that black swamp.
Don't get me wrong, there is more nuance to this than what I can capture here. I've never worked with so many bright and well meaning people ever. So I have no doubt that some of them have been orange pilled, just doubting that the organisation can be salvaged (they are just one league below the UN and the Bank).
It would be great if someone ( nostr:nprofile1qqsd2s26xy7ns3sllyagc9c0jsdje49xdfw0mwcfxsrfvrmvkvtcf8cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgewaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8g6r9wdsk6etrv96zu6t0qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehw6r9wfjjucm0d5vjue67 ?) could get some of the aid people to reflect in public on the aid industry with the insights they gained from understanding the world through a Bitcoin lens.
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