“Naturally, we want answers on who needs our help most. But outsourcing our choices about charitable giving to empirical guides does not cut through the numbness. It may sit, conveniently, alongside it. It can even short circuit the painful process of paying attention.”
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I wrote an essay for @nytimes.com Ideas about how people decide where to give away money and how the tech industry's obsession with optimization filtered into so many parts of our culture. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...
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As a cradle Catholic I was happy to join my atheist-affirming Unitarian Universalist congregation that focuses on hands-on social justice work and building local community.
It's about helping the people who are right next to us
Like yeah sure we don't have numbers on family helping family but I think...
But yeah, super resonate with that despair feeling oftentimes