Topic: Poverty Management

The COVID-19 pandemic acted as a trigger event that accelerated technocratic plans previously estimated to have a ten-year lead time. Research into the Philadelphia heroin epidemic and housing access revealed that global markets are being fueled by poverty and trauma. These conditions allow for the implementation of "pay for success" finance models.

Allison McDowell references her essay "To Serve Man," arguing that social impact investing is a technologically mediated poverty management cookbook. She asserts that these markets are designed to manage rather than eliminate poverty, as investors require the persistence of the problem to generate profit. The branding of these efforts as "charitable" masks a system of legalized gambling on human lives.