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by cutemonster 1226 days ago
Makes me think of Parkinson's law: "work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion" -- but this time, "money spent expands to match the amount of donations".

I wonder how to design an organization, where people don't do that. Seems it's hard.

Maybe new metrics: Money-not-spent, and Time-we-didn't-need-to-use. But can be easily gamed, hmm