> If we gave 10-20% to charity like fundamentalist Christians, the 4 million programmers could lift at least 4 million families above the poverty line. Instead,

> If we gave 10-20% to charity like fundamentalist Christians, the 4 million programmers could lift at least 4 million families above the poverty line. Instead, we blame the billionaires and do little to nothing despite our Twitter claims to want to help the disenfranchised. Yes, but we give 40% to the Federal government who spends trillions to take care of poverty, more so than the 10% tithe ever would amount to, and the problem never gets better. Donate money to the poor? Great idea, but we're _already_ doing that via taxation and wealth redistribution, and no matter how much we do, we're told it's never enough.