Zizek's talk on charity "First as Tragedy, then as Farce" (or the idea that charity is bad because it undermines political change) -> Jeff Kaufman's "Good Charity as Neither Tragedy or Farce".

I don't think that Kaufman really addresses Zizek's main claim. He basically says that he doesn't understand what Zizek is proposing.

I think you could rephrase the question of whether Craig Newmark should have done the same thing as Peter Thiel. Both started companies that were very important to todays ecommerce.

Peter sold out his principles and sold Paypal to ebay. Paypal does some things that aren't very ethical and not reflective of the libertarian principles that Thiel has. The ethics of Facebook or a company like Palantir are also quite questionable.

Craig is the professed communist. He decided against getting a billion from Ebay. He decided against taking ads on his website. He provides most services simple for free. If more CEO runs their companies like Craig than we would have a different economy.

Craig also does charity work but he doesn't do it as much by spending money as Thiel does.