Dion Dawson

Because that's the key thing.

If you're wondering, you know, what is the underlying theme?

It's immediacy.

I don't have time.

This will not be solved in my lifetime.

So while I have the baton, how can I look at capitalism?

How can I look at philanthropy?

And how can I figure out ways at which we can have elements of both while making sure that people are treated better, are fed better and live longer lives?

Because, you know, you need money.

To move money, you know what I mean?

This is capitalism.

You can't just, you know, with no money say, hey, you with a billion need to do this.

And so what I realized was, OK, you know, philanthropy, nonprofit work, it's all big business.

And so I'm not upset about that.

the saving grace for my journey has been the economic activity, has been the procurement of the produce and of the food, as opposed to just hoping people donate something and we can do something with that.

There's no quality assurance there.

And so looking at the economics of it is, okay, cool.

Well, if there's billions in emergency food and food equity, health equity,

Then how can we make sure that some of those billions of dollars are used to pay the farmers, but not just because we're saying they need to be paid, but paying for their products so that they can then build out their infrastructure and they can connect back to the supply chain.

And so this is something I want you to think about.