I’ll never deny being a right cynical bitch most days, but the little bit of your article that really got my attention was the concept in a comment that if we americans just gave 1% of our money to charity, african poverty would be erradicated. And it got me thinking about the complexities of african economics as I know them, and came to the conclusion that we’d have a bunch of poor africans who now had a little bit of cash now. it wouldn’t fix anything, and probably aggrivate inflation. Until folks in africa can come up with solutions to their massive lack of infrastructure, throwing money at the problem with fix exactly nothing.

And that got me thinking… what does charity accomplish? People have been giving to charity since the beginning of time, but charities never seem to become obsolete, do they? They never seem to fix the problem they’re addressing. Charities seem to exist mostly to treat symptoms and perpetuate themselves. So I ask the universe, what good does charity actually do?

Its interesting to see that we picked out some of the same posts as highlights.