Well, it's not that I disrespect them. It's just that in any veil-of-ignorance metric of human happiness, the marginal dollar goes not very far when given to t

Well, it's not that I disrespect them. It's just that in any veil-of-ignorance metric of human happiness, the marginal dollar goes not very far when given to the arbitrary homeless person. There is: * a discovery problem - I don't know which guys the marginal dollar will provide more than a dollar's worth back in human value * an antagonist problem - There are actors intentionally muddying the waters so that spending the dollar will yield negative value * a comparative advantage problem - These guys are not an efficient spend of money And I must make these choices because a 40 year old shitting himself on Powell St. is really not more valuable than a 2 year old who will die of a disease unless I fund part of a doctor, and I have limited resources in which to choose who to help. And neither of them are more valuable than getting extra meat on my Chipotle. I know this because I think about that $3 sometimes when I'm ordering and I'd rather have the meat than give the $3 to help either of them.