{"id":16588,"date":"2025-03-02T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16588"},"modified":"2025-03-02T13:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T13:58:38","slug":"the-problem-with-us-charity-is-that-its-not-effective-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16588","title":{"rendered":"The problem with US charity is that it\u2019s not effective enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;US philanthropy is still much, much,&nbsp;<em>much<\/em>&nbsp;more about rich guys like David Geffen slapping their names on concert halls than it is about donating to help&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/387901\/malaria-vaccine-treatment-challenge-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">people dying from malaria<\/a>, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/364288\/how-factory-farming-ends-animal-rights-vegans-climate-ethics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">animals being tortured in factory farms<\/a>, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2022\/11\/23\/23475085\/covid-pandemic-infectious-disease-virus-pathogen-illness-kevin-esvelt-genetic-sequencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preventing deaths from pandemics<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2018\/12\/21\/18126576\/ai-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-safety-alignment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">out-of-control AI<\/a>, to name a few EA-associated causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pretending otherwise, though, lets more complacent philanthropists off the hook for refusing to think through the consequences of their actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/390458\/charity-america-effective-altruism-local\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/390458\/charity-america-effective-altruism-local<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;US philanthropy is still much, much, much more about rich guys like David Geffen slapping their names on concert halls than it is about donating to help people dying from malaria, or animals being tortured in factory farms, or preventing deaths from pandemics and out-of-control AI, to name a few EA-associated causes.<br \/>\nPretending otherwise, though, lets more complacent philanthropists off the hook for refusing to think through the consequences of their actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/390458\/charity-america-effective-altruism-local<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[916,707],"class_list":["post-16588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-charity","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16589,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588\/revisions\/16589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}