I give a considerable amount to charity, but I don't think that charitable giving is going to solve the problems that the OWS people are complaining about. The math just doesn't work out. Consider education: paying off one person's student loans cost $50,000. That same amount of money could pay for the operations of seven primary schools in Zambia for a year. I, and I think any mathematically literate, good intentioned, and globally minded individual, would rather give to the latter cause.
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Date: 2011-10-04 11:41 am (UTC)I give a considerable amount to charity, but I don't think that charitable giving is going to solve the problems that the OWS people are complaining about. The math just doesn't work out. Consider education: paying off one person's student loans cost $50,000. That same amount of money could pay for the operations of seven primary schools in Zambia for a year. I, and I think any mathematically literate, good intentioned, and globally minded individual, would rather give to the latter cause.