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First, "throws money away", really? It's going toward something good, helping real people's lives. Second it's fine if you want to measure someone's charitabl

First, "throws money away", really? It's going toward something good, helping real people's lives. Second it's fine if you want to measure someone's charitableness by their personal sacrifice, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with measuring it by the impact of their actions. In your scenario I would say the money being thrown away would have much more of an impact.

powertower 14y ago
I've long stopped believing that money helps improve the world. People do. If you throw money at a problem, often times you create a dependency on that aid, and other times you just end up with even more mouths to feed. It's not that monetary aid is always 100% ineffective. It's just that once you tally up the bad and the good, you're left with something that's in the red.
- mahyarm 14y ago
  Money is an extremely effective social organization and incentive system. It's a way to get people to behave in a way you want to. The right investments can help change the world.
- scott_s 14y ago
  And you pay people with money.
Gormo 14y ago
> Second it's fine if you want to measure someone's charitableness by their personal sacrifice Why do you think that's fine? Do you regard the notion that one person's happiness must be "paid for" by another person's suffering as a virtuous one?