Episode
Slightly Against The "Other People's Money" Argument Against Aid
Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Feb 18, 2026 · 19 min
In the comments to last year's USAID post, Fabian said : While i am happy for the existence of charity organisations, i don't get why people instead of giving to charity are so eager to force their co-citizens to give. If one charity org is not worth getting your personal money, find another one which is. But don't use the tax machine to forcefully extract money for charity. There are purposes…