Not necessarily, if you try to see things as a whole. It's like the wallstreetbets reddit. You don't give them redditors information/knowledge on how to evaluate a stock, you give them an opportunity to jump onboard to by XYZ share. So in essence it is gambling. Put blind hope into a faceless entity that what it says is true and not malicious.

So if you want to uplift people from povery don't give them food, give them the means to create their own food. The moment you start to do that, you gonna anger the "colonists" quite quick.