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I kinda just want basic income so that I won't feel guilty about never donating to charity. Everything else is centralized and specialized, charity could be too

• waveBidder 3y ago
  much like there's always room for startups, there will always be room for exploring new giving opportunities. Ubi is no substitute for Givewell.
• robocat 3y ago
  With basic income, presumably more people will want to run charities. Next you end up with everybody competing for how much charity they give - this happens already. Go to a charity store and look at who works there and why. You'd be guilt/tripped and pressured by your well meaning peers. And the only upper limit on how much charity we can give is the number of hours we have free. This spirals out of control in some groups (e.g. some religious charitable organisations or orders)
  • harimau777 3y ago
    My understanding is that the people who work at my local charity store are unhoused people who can only stay in the shelter if they work at the store.
    • robocat 3y ago
      Different charity stores have different employees - I presume that is worldwide. The animal rights charity here has very different volunteers than a religious charity which has very different employees than you find at Red Cross or Habitat For Humanity stores here. > unhoused people who can only stay in the shelter if they work at the store. I believe that doesn't exist here in New Zealand. It worry be very difficult to run a charity that way here because employees and tenants have very strong legal rights. I don't know how you could structure it to work - maybe a religious organisation with homeless members of that religion?