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Alison McDowell | Human Capital Markets, Predatory Philanthropy, & The Gamified World
To Serve Man, Strategic Branding of Social Impact
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.