hegemonicon comments on A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hegemonicon 08 September 2010 01:23:26PM 12 points [-]

Or, if you have specific skill that can be helpful for a charity organization, that may be a better investment than just giving them money.

How does this make sense? By donating your labor you're effectively giving the charity money, since now they don't have to pay someone to do said labor. Since it's rare that your skills and an organization's needs are going to line up, it's almost always going to be more efficient to just make a donation.

If you think the organization is going to waste your donation, you shouldn't offer them labor instead - you should find a better organization.