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AspiringRationalist comments on When there are too few people to donate money to - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Romashka 14 August 2015 05:05PM

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Comment author: AspiringRationalist 15 August 2015 02:48:14AM 3 points [-]

If a soup kitchen lacks the funds required to pay a minimum wage worker to pour the soup, it would benefit more from donations than from volunteers. If it doesn't have enough people to perform low-skill tasks and has the money but doesn't hire workers, then what it needs is competent leadership. In either case, a skilled worker can help a lot more by providing something other than unskilled labor.

Comment author: Romashka 15 August 2015 09:07:20AM 0 points [-]

But most people are skilled workers outside free kitchens. Should they all donate?