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Cancer? Wow. Personally, I expect they have a lot of good they can do in the world. And I believe they need resources to do it. What do you do that is so virtuo

• loeg 5y ago
  > What do you do that is so virtuous that you can call Wikimedia a cancer? That's a very caustic statement, and it's not your place to judge, but if you're inviting me to soapbox: Personally, I give my charitable dollars to Against Malaria Foundation to buy insecticidal bed nets. They've raised $342 million in total since their founding and distributed ~137 million nets. GiveWell estimates the program costs about $3000-5000 per life saved; or to put it another way, they've saved roughly 68,000 lives. The WHO estimates that 409,000 people died of malaria in 2019 alone; there's a lot left to do here. WMF has raised more than double that (~$800 million), over a similar time frame. Of that, Wikipedia's current hosting expenses and compensation for authors and editors totals something like $2.5 million annually. If you think that's a good use of your charity dollars, great. We can agree to disagree. If you have any spare capacity, though, I would highly encourage giving to Against Malaria Foundation, or any of GiveWell's other top charities.