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by kortilla 2345 days ago
> charity makes by just poaching money that would have gone to some charity anyways

No, “money going to charities” is not all one bucket. A huge chunk of charities are incompetent or are just stupid ideas to begin with. It’s better for 70% of my donation to go to a competent charity than 90% to a pointless one, even if that 20% difference is going to the CEO.

Checkout givewell.org to learn about the importance of picking good charities. It is critical to poach charity money from bad charities.