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The Failure of the $100 Laptop?
RobertinXinyang writes "MSN's MoneyCentral has an article on the possibility that the $100 laptop project fails to meet its goals, and the potential of the project to harm people in developing nations. The article goes on to liken the project to 'good-natured showboating', and cites the unreality of a family using the glow from the laptop's screen as the only source of light in their hut. Perhaps there are better things to do with our time and money in developing nations?" From the article: "The entire idea may be misguided and counterproductive. At least that's what Stanford journalism lecturer an Africa watcher G. Pascal Zachary thinks. The basic argument is that with $100 you could almost feed a village for a year, so why waste that sum on a laptop? What are they thinking? The fact that these people need electricity more than they need a laptop is only part of the problem. The real problem is lost mind share. The people are harmed because these sorts of schemes are sopping up mind-share time of the people who might be doing something actually useful."
It was too late to help the niggers 200 years ago, not it is really too late. Niggers are monkeys, muslims are genetically inferior inbreds, and crossing the two just gives you a creature with a penchant for backwards thinking and violence. Instead of wasting $100 on laptops for nigger monkeys, we should invest the money in a more lethal army to go kill off the nigger monkey muslims of the world. Once islam is wiped from the face of the earth, you will see many, many problems disappear. Literally!
Now that old Uncle Milty Friedman, the free-market radical, has finally bit the turnip, maybe his execrable idea that the world is a zero-sum game and "wealth will trickle down" will hopefully get buried with him. What a surprise that a poor immigrant economist gets all sorts of accolades for telling the rich and powerful that it's actually morally good to be, well, rich and powerful, and that somehow greedy people at the top will translate to another potato on the table for the poorest families. His f@ck'd-up notions of the ethicality of the unfettered forces of the Darwinian "market" have done more than enough damage to our world, as seen by all the hoohah surrounding the idea of these 100-buck laptops.
After all is said and done, if you read between the lines, the real problem people have with this 100-dollar laptop project is that these scummy peasants are being GIVEN something as valuable as a $100, and a computer at that! The very symbol of what is great and good about life in the First World. Next thing, these dirt-poor will start their own BLOGS and THEN WHAT WILL WE HAVE? Anarchy, I tell you.
Why can't they be happy with the fact that as my yacht rises, their little dinghy dingy might get a little taste of my wake (but will more likely get swamped).
Oh yes, Milton Friedman's great contribution to society was the notion that we can Eat the Poor.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Maybe third world countries don't want a faggot OS on their cheap ass rigs?