How many lives could you personally have made better, by not reading Hacker News, and instead helping the homeless in your city? > the allocation of our limite

How many lives could you personally have made better, by not reading Hacker News, and instead helping the homeless in your city? > the allocation of our limited resources is a difficult and interesting problem The one without sin cast the first stone. There is always a better, more impactful choice available today than spending time online or watching Netflix. Yet, it is unreasonable to expect others to live the life of Mother Teresa when oneself is writing it on such forums. Even the most good people alive today probably played a game, read a book or watched TV at times. People should not be judged on what they did in their off time, but what absolute good they have accomplished. Let Mother Teresa build all the silly clocks she wants.