Believe it or not people actually assess the effectiveness of charities and you can choose good ones. https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities https://

Believe it or not people actually assess the effectiveness of charities and you can choose good ones. https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities Some charities are more effective than others and obviously some are used for other reasons (like avoiding tax which silicon valley knows all about). There are good charities that do good work and if you want to help people they already exist. It's not about "good ideas" but actually having the infrastructure and staff to do something that is known to work (e.g. vaccinating people, educating people, housing people, clean water etc.). Your focus on "good ideas" is the problem with Silicon Valley style thinking in this area. It's not the case that if only charities had better ideas they'd be more effective. The ideas and organisations are there. What they need is money and resources. That's where people with money, like Elon Musk, can really help. He could also publicize some charities and not just focus on himself.