There is an interesting article on lesswrong about how to allocate your resources between things that make you feel good and things that actually do good. http

There is an interesting article on lesswrong about how to allocate your resources between things that make you feel good and things that actually do good. http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_separately/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa... The money that I gave to potato salad guy came from a very different budget than the money that I gave to, e.g., PATH http://www.path.org http://www.path.org If you're trading off dollars between potato salad and charity, you're arguably doing it wrong. But most likely you are not diverting chariable dollars to potato salad, which is why the premise of this article is flawed. Or as Max Temkin put it: "Crowdfunding/capitalism isn't zero sum. We can feed the hungry and back the potato salad project." https://twitter.com/MaxTemkin/status/486319873207717888 https://twitter.com/MaxTemkin/status/486319873207717888