fubarobfusco comments on Politics Discussion Thread August 2012 - Less Wrong

0 Post author: OrphanWilde 01 August 2012 03:25PM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 03 August 2012 07:26:25PM 2 points [-]

We could try to convince the rich person to give away a lot of their money.

For instance, one of GiveWell's standout organizations is GiveDirectly which simply transfers money from donors to poor recipients in the developing world (specifically, Kenya). "The recipient uses the transfer to pursue their own goals."