BenGilbert

Two problems with charity: 1) You usually don't know what your donation achieves. At best, you might know what your money is spent on. You don't know how effective this is at producing the outcomes you care about. Even Givewell, who seem to me to have done more careful work...

I've been doing some thinking about charity vs investment as alternative ways of doing good (leaving open for now what that means). One question I'm wondering about is, in what circumstances does your choice of what to invest in have any welfare consequences at all (beyond differences in your own...