1. Usually people like to pretend they're giving money to charities to fix some world problem and not to improve their status. Doing that while donating non-ano

1. Usually people like to pretend they're giving money to charities to fix some world problem and not to improve their status. Doing that while donating non-anonymously is hypocritical. 2. Are you saying it doesn't matter who you give your money to, because it's the money that matters and not how it's spent? Surely you see how that is wrong. 3. Selfish giving encourages donating to popular charities, not ones with the highest impact. Thus money is wasted when an inefficient (or downright harmful) charity gets popular, as people donate to signal status instead of trying to improve the world.