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You can find charities that help the homeless. They'd be happy to get the equivalent of $5 a week from you. There are sites that rate charities on how much goes
by cafard 5y ago
You can find charities that help the homeless. They'd be happy to get the equivalent of $5 a week from you. There are sites that rate charities on how much goes to the intended beneficiaries v. how much goes to overhead, for example https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities https://www.charitywatch.org/top-rated-charities . I suppose that some quite effective local charities might be too small to be rated by such sites, though.
- mostertoaster 5y agoI’m pretty cynical towards non-profits in general, though there are good charities out there. The problem though if I just give money to them, even if they’re good, is that it is essentially me saying, I don’t want to get my hands dirty. It’s kind of like those saying “tax us more, I just do whatever to make the poor go away”. But what if the Jesus saying “you will always have the poor with you” was meant to mean you will always have the blessing of helping the poor, not the poor are some curse we need to eradicate. The striving for utopia seems to be the thing that has more often brought “hell” on earth. It is more blessed to give than to receive, but if no one is poor then there is no way to realize that blessing. (Though keeping people poor so you can feel good about giving would be despicable) I’d still give money to charities, I just wonder is that enough, have I done my duty as a person in civilized society?