[josinalvo]

My personal solution is to not buy utilions at all.

Fuzzies are good. They are useful. They connect me to people around me, and bring gratitude. Fuzzies are the reason I have a moral feeling at all. And utilions are just a virus, that infects my moral system, trying to highjack it, so that it becomes useless to me. So that I do charity without getting gratitude and potencial help in the future.

Purchase "moral usefulness" and "moral useless abstraction" separately, and try to purchase of the latter as little as possible :)

[josinalvo]

The reason I write this is fuzzies, btw. I want to help other people find moral fulfillment, and hopefully some will be grateful and return with some other insight

[heavenlyblue]

Hacker News is not a comfort space though - it is primarily utilitarian (The Economist-liberalist, if you would like) in nature.

[heavenlyblue]

Here's my opposite take on it:

The most efficient use of your own superior intellect is to help those who are the most helpless, because by doing the easiest things for you, you can scale those things to a much greater extent.

You may think that fuzzies are easy. But they make the greatest different to a much higher amount of people around you.