You won't succeed at the goal of being optimal. But you can at least do better than the default, donate 10%, and feel good about that. [1] > Why ten percent?

You won't succeed at the goal of being optimal. But you can at least do better than the default, donate 10%, and feel good about that. [1] > Why ten percent? > [...] The most important thing is having a Schelling point, and ten percent is nice, round, divinely ordained [that's a tithing joke], and – crucially – the Schelling point upon which we have already settled. [...] > It’s ten percent because definitions were made for Man, not Man for definitions, and if we define “good person” in a way such that everyone is sitting around miserable because they can’t reach an unobtainable standard, we are stupid definition-makers. If we are smart definition-makers, we will define it in precisely that way which makes it the most effective tool to convince people to give at least that much. 1: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-every...