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ChristianKl comments on What's the right way to think about how much to give to charity? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 26 September 2014 10:45:13AM 1 point [-]

it's sending money unmonitored, and hoping against 60 years of experience that this actually improves things rather than just being a leaky bucket.

There not much experience with sending money directly. Most of aid spending traditional went to big organisations and not to individual people in form of money.