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I think you are missing the point... "Give away what you can" is obviously the optimal middle ground between "give away nothing" and "give away everything".

• renewiltord 4y ago
  Personally, I aspire to be as philanthropic as Bill Gates. Everything past my first billion, I shall share.
  • Arete314159 4y ago
    I used to really look up to him. But he chose to hang out with a convicted child sex abuser, so now I really question whether somebody with, at the very least, extremely poor judgement and empathy should be leading philanthropic missions. I'd rather just have the gov't tax him and have us vote on how to use that money (I understand that doesn't always work in reality, but at least it works in theory, whereas a guy who hangs out with sex traffickers is not somebody I want talking about how to help 'women in poverty in the third world').
• slothtrop 4y ago
  You can give away everything, and it certainly was the point - it's unambiguous. The word "everything" is there. There's always a deliberate conflation between want and need. If an action like that has any value, it can't be in the utilitarian sense. It's monastic. And you can decide whether that "purifies your soul" or whatever else, but it's quite a contrivance to suggest it could help others more than funding charity, or better yet voting for progressive policies.