Rich people have been using charity to avoid taxes, rationalize power acquisition, solicit donations for dubious causes, promote blatantly self-serving policy,

Rich people have been using charity to avoid taxes, rationalize power acquisition, solicit donations for dubious causes, promote blatantly self-serving policy, etc since forever. We agree on classifying those as pseudo-charities, we agree that these things happened under the EA banner, and we agree that this should trigger some self-reflection from anyone who enabled them and rebranding from anyone who didn't. However, I'm still going to do my charity through GiveWell. GiveWell makes many people with dubious pet causes very angry and these people have taken the adjacent scandal as an opportunity to attack the very idea of vetting charity. If someone wants to propose an alternative vetting strategy, I'm all ears, but I don't see the sins of SBF & co as a reason to stop vetting. I just don't. I am of the opinion that we need vetting now more than ever, and whatever we want to call that going forward I plan to support it.