Ask HN: What can we do to help Puerto Rico?

17 points·unclebucknasty··11 comments

Passively watching this evolving crisis from home is hard. There is a lot of brainpower here. Is there anything we (coders, techies, etc) can do to help? Any creative ideas?

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Replacing the orange baboon with any other baboon would probably help a lot.

Look at yourself:

https://i.imgur.com/kLUVcdp.png

Compare me to Trump.

TANSTAAFL. Long term, Tariffs on foreign trade would probably benefit Puerto Rico because its industries would not be subject to them and that might offset the logistical disadvantages of its location relative to US markets...i.e. under NAFTA goods from Canada and Mexico can be shipped by rail and truck and under other globalization policies large scale trading nations such as China benefit from massive economies of scale. As US relations with Cuba normalize, Puerto Rico will probably struggle more economically.

So political will that is perhaps not directly in one's best interest as a consumer.

Help clear the lies that make slow and ineffective response politically palitable.

Learn and tell the truth about what's happened to them.

I remember working for a bit for Big Pharma, a couple of decades ago, when Peurto Rico was "the future" for them and they were going to... "modernize", or something, the island's economy.

Uhuh...

(To quote a song, maybe a bit out of context, "same as it ever was".)

http://billmoyers.com/story/vulture-capitalists-circle-puert...

Donate: http://unidosporpuertorico.com/en/

Donate money. A dollar goes a long way there.

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