Feeding back into “child’s life” a few generations down the road is not a multiplier of a few hundred. That it feeds back gives it an extra 10% or so; even with the feeding back, doing anything that isn’t directly saving as many lives as possible right now is an objectively worse option.
Some of those other variables will feed back in to the “child’s life” variable, a generation or two down the road.
Feeding back into “child’s life” a few generations down the road is not a multiplier of a few hundred. That it feeds back gives it an extra 10% or so; even with the feeding back, doing anything that isn’t directly saving as many lives as possible right now is an objectively worse option.