Jimmy Song recently had a podcast that also addressed that same theme, about "earning the money was much easier than giving it way...."

Giving it away would be easier only if you didn't do it carefully.

But with most charities, you scratch the surface just a tiny bit, and instantly find inefficiencies, fraud, misaligned incentives, all kinds of things you don't want to put money into.

Take, for instance, libraries. Andrew Carnegie established a lot of public libraries in the US. And to be honest - I've used libraries a tremendous amount, in my life, and they've been hugely positive.

But now, most libraries are centers of wokedom. Where I use to live, they were shut down during covid for MORE THAN A YEAR (they did have a "hands off" book retrieval service). Actually I think the libraries may have been closed more than 18 months.

And my last experience of the local library, where I lived previously, was being kicked out for not wearing a mask, once they did open again.