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<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001flTSoqWuHvoaF5jj_Rkj9nc7ucTmFAsa4wHgPfE5lvmH LRrXS9U7n26gNaLrs6qG0hnUNLtmyTLWka8zEG58XmqhdyZTE2VKITRTkiNzIkW65mYLdeKhnx9s rqsHiA0x> December 30, 2013 Pro Bono U2 singer Paul David Hewson, best known by his stage name Bono, has come to recognize that capitalism is crucial in lifting people out of poverty in any permanent way. He now calls institutionalized charity like foreign aid only a "stopgap," not a basic cure for poverty - an understanding perhaps still too generous, since such aid can prevent needed economic and other reforms and thus help entrench poverty. In any case, for decades Bono has both raised money from individuals for international charity and chastised government officials whose policies seemed too stingy (in spending other people's money). Now he is surprised to be touting the pivotal virtues of money-making and entrepreneurship. <http://thisiscommonsense.com/images/pro-bono.png> "Rock star preaches capitalism. Wow. Sometimes I hear myself and I just can't believe it. But commerce is real. That's what you're about here. It's real. Aid is just a stopgap. Commerce - entrepreneurial capitalism - takes more people out of poverty than aid. Of course we know that." (See a clip <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001flTSoqWuHvrI1l6mQiz5WhTnKbrdpUZT1CG44eYqHkdK zHh7GRErEVqI3xYgmRLVIe-p_hc9tAkus1ZrcGPLQ_CUxVq7_GDqHutPVgM1BKIjzmRdWFAJP61M VAplWj0bSpLSaTHXc8_vHYw2GaE0wzSVoGpujilkJymZ91nFaHzK4sABemja_CQeJMj0qv9S12rj CCHyfy7sUf8biCDeTB7NGQ2VbUaN> of these words.) The rock star's epiphany came after a TED talk a few years ago by George Ayittey, in which the speaker "made a special effort to rip into the foreign aid establishment," knowing <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001flTSoqWuHvrYdQl_gsJ135HXw05Odm9j5EYVBzag-Z_Z i7q5tORfLyFb8GdRtL3C_O0eebWx33ry5fZyb6RxSlhrD5sEHt5UGCjqDv1ffobm0W512yB0wCf8 bSWjWpGQ7FN_qbGMmuRuNZ_BDDVhBD181G0cWuiUq-X4wYTkeyH-DGfeuz7k4DkguZ_1VYIt3hXD 5rJrg0GQ40dHYH4SwNRgEyDesKWQ> that Bono was in the audience. When the star came up after the talk to express his disagreement, Ayittey gave him a copy of his ideology-changing book <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001flTSoqWuHvroQMZxjkuJH_WtuKqPGRI5pjsRvAAVfWKE 1ih7DO-4mZES55c8foI11_z6FxNv6tJQZRGc0qwxu204oInxCrn1u3OlOwROzbbf_pEgzjGscG8k a6RqstQN1bnpb3QngZ5JevvDkQoW2ujOQZ0KlP8m7SwiPFFkFNc=> Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Development. Perspectives unchained by myth and politics are a good idea too. This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob. 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