Yeah, I remember reading an interesting article on how disaster relief can actually do harm. The way this works is that when there's shit going down in South Sudan that causes throngs of refugees to be displaced and be without, savvy business men in Kenya and and Ethiopia know not to load up the trucks, because they'll be effectively competing with unbeatable competition. Their competition is not selling, but giving it away. Now when disaster relief pulls out, there's this shock to the system, because the supply chains haven't organically set up since the disaster.

Now, I don't think this is even what Rilla is talking about. I think Rilla is trying to get at the nuance of it all. I'm with that. This simplistic either, or; socialism(welfarism?), free market dichotomy-- maybe the opposing ideologues are what keep it balanced, but if either won out, shit would be in shambles.