<story><title>Farewell from the Pineapple Fund</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8ieffr/farewell_from_the_pineapple_fund/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdamon96</author><text>Can you explain to me why you believe the benefit to society from donating to charity is often negative?</text></item><item><author>tlb</author><text>Thanks, Pineapple person &amp;#x2F; people.&lt;p&gt;The benefit to society from donating to charity can range from positive, to zero, to negative. Often negative. Anyone with money can donate, but it takes a lot of work to donate to things that make the world better. The Pineapple fund seems to have put in the effort to donate to projects with high positive impact, in a way that does the most good. (It&amp;#x27;s possible to donate to good projects in bad ways, such as by requiring them to use the money to build a building with your name on it.)&lt;p&gt;Doing the work can be exasperating, because you think &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m giving away money, and I have to do all this work too???&amp;quot; But it&amp;#x27;s the work that makes the difference.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SatvikBeri</author><text>Scared Straight is a well-known program that has been well-studied and found to cause significant harm. &amp;quot;In 2004 the Washington State Institute for Public Policy estimated that each dollar spent on Scared Straight programs incurred costs of $203.51.&amp;quot;[0]&lt;p&gt;It was based on an intuitive idea: if teenagers see how bad jail is, they&amp;#x27;ll want to do anything they can to avoid it. That turned out pretty poorly - they instead built social connections with criminals, and were substantially more likely to get involved with crime themselves.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Scared_Straight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Scared_Straight&lt;/a&gt;!</text></comment>
<story><title>Farewell from the Pineapple Fund</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8ieffr/farewell_from_the_pineapple_fund/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdamon96</author><text>Can you explain to me why you believe the benefit to society from donating to charity is often negative?</text></item><item><author>tlb</author><text>Thanks, Pineapple person &amp;#x2F; people.&lt;p&gt;The benefit to society from donating to charity can range from positive, to zero, to negative. Often negative. Anyone with money can donate, but it takes a lot of work to donate to things that make the world better. The Pineapple fund seems to have put in the effort to donate to projects with high positive impact, in a way that does the most good. (It&amp;#x27;s possible to donate to good projects in bad ways, such as by requiring them to use the money to build a building with your name on it.)&lt;p&gt;Doing the work can be exasperating, because you think &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m giving away money, and I have to do all this work too???&amp;quot; But it&amp;#x27;s the work that makes the difference.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomc1985</author><text>A lot of attempts at charity have backfired, often due to cultural differences between the benefactor and those on the receiving end, or a lack of oversight or poorly-thought-out plans. See: PlayPump [1], UNICEF&amp;#x27;s Cluster-bomb-colored food drops [2], etc&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.ei.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;the-playpump-what-went-wrong&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blogs.ei.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;the-playpump-what-we...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.upi.com&amp;#x2F;Defense-News&amp;#x2F;2003&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;UNICEF-Rations-bomblets-same-color&amp;#x2F;87821049335611&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.upi.com&amp;#x2F;Defense-News&amp;#x2F;2003&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;UNICEF-Rations-b...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>