Charity work should not be needed today, people should look after themselves".
Charity may not
provide the best solution to a problem
Let's agree that the
purpose of giving to charity is to solve particular problems and
choose the problem of world poverty. Let's also agree that we want to
do the most effective thing to help reduce world poverty.
Charitable giving
may not be the most effective way of solving world poverty.
Charitable giving may even distract from finding the best solution
which might involve a complex
rethink of the way the world organises its economic relationships,
and large-scale government initiatives to change people's conditions.
If that is
so, then the effort put into charity might be better devoted to
pressuring governments to bring about needed change. And governments
might be more likely to focus on dealing with poverty if they weren't
being helped by charities.
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