I mean, can I not just spend the money to buy a better society in which to live? Museums. I love museums. They all need more support. Kids need more places to

I mean, can I not just spend the money to buy a better society in which to live? Museums. I love museums. They all need more support. Kids need more places to do field trips. Libraries ... they are experiencing budget cuts everywhere now as cities prioritize police spending. Parks. Homes for people that can't afford them. Seriously, one of the most effective possible cures for homelessness is to set up a program that helps people cover their rent for a month or two if they get into trouble. Health care. Like, there's got to be a pile of people that need urgent health care and can't afford it, right? Education. Adult education, too. Science and research. And most, maybe all of these, aren't even things that necessarily need an entirely new organization to spearhead them, or some kind of dramatic social change. They are all things that exist right now and need more funding than anything else. You could hire a small team to just look up all kinds of programs all day long and write checks for them and it would be enormously impactful. I just... the answer to this seems so blindingly obvious to me, and then I read the rest of the comments, and I really wonder when exactly the hacker ethos got co-opted by the crab mentality.