Make Poverty History?

[ciphergoth]

I tend to assume that any campaign sufficiently high-profile to get celebrities on Breakfast News talking about it will be a waste of time. However, at a medium-length glance I can't see what's wrong with Make Poverty History - they're not making the mistake of asking for donations to give to the needy people of Africa, instead focussing on creating political pressure to a number of as far as I can tell wholly laudable goals. Am I missing something important? Or should I be making plans to visit Edinburgh around July 2nd?

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[jaggederest.livejournal.com]

It's the same problematic zero-sum-game as all of the "end poverty now" idealist movements, in my oh-so-libertarian opinion.

Same problem ponzi schemes have (although not in the same class of fraudulence)
There's just no way to redirect X dollars from point A to point B without bankrupting someone's economy in the process.