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On the other hand, it seems to me like the differences between the foreign policies of the two candidates don't seem nearly as significant as the differences in their domestic policies. Furthermore, problems like malaria would be best dealt with through foreign aid budgets, which really aren't that big to begin with. In any case, I think my point stands that the value of an "altruistic dollar" in this context is significantly less than the value of an actual dollar donated to an optimal charity.
I agree with you, and while I agree that the values of "charity" versus "well-directed US spending" are at least one order of magnitude different, but I'm not convinced that they are more than three orders of magnitude different and most people do not even make $56/hour with total time fungibility.