[larksimian]

This was a vastly better critique of EA as it exists than the article, which I just found infuriating. Paraphrasing 'EA perpetuates factory farming' ... well, at least EA wasn't around when factory farming got introduced to the world, whereas all the author's alternative movements were.

In my opinion, which I think is somewhat EA compatible, just give money to poor people. Directly to them, in as much as possible, avoiding corrupt intermediaries that might steal it. Send money straight to their phones if that's the main form of 'banking' they use.

The other, in my opinion, very effective form of assisting poor countries is allowing labour movement from them. I'm from Romania, allowing rural workers access to Western Europe's labour market was the biggest poverty uplift in the history of our country. This has the welfare downside of harming the labour power of poor/working class people in Western Europe. Not sure any Western European country has handled that part of the equation correctly, any maybe there is no great solution. But it definitely worked for us immigrants.