More on making our world better.

I've been doing a little brainstorming. Here's what i have so far.

If there were no externalities, the free market would solve everything. But that's not real life. So this is a picture of influences that occur outside the free market.

(Updated Feb. 29, 7pm: added "war -> poverty" link and "religion" bubble.)

The completely connected triangle — education, health, and poverty — is interesting.

There are people, organizations, and movements sitting on each of these arrows trying to influence them. These are some of the "good guys":

• Scientific American, MythBusters, etc.
  
• Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, etc.
  
• PLoS, open access movement
  
• campaign finance laws
  
• truth in advertising laws
  
• responsible bloggers
  
• Wikipedia
  
• FactCheck, NewsTrust, etc.
  
• Change Congress
  
• electoral system reform
  
• voting machine reliability
  
• OpenCongress, TheyWorkForYou
  
• Americans United
  

Where do you fit on this picture?