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How is purchasing a good analogous to burning money? How is donating to any charity somehow immediately more appropriate?

I'm not sure anyone knows the absolute correct way to allocate goods, services, and resources. Charities don't always prove beneficial to the cause they are supporting and investors and corporations can do a lot of good.

Who knows where this money will go eventually, but it certainly won't magically burst into flame. Perhaps preserving and apple 1 will provide a huge benefit to society one day?

People thought computing and lasers were pointless endeavors for decades as well.