I consider Pro #2 a con. I'd have to imagine the guy who built Amazon could make something better than what status quo non-profits do.
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In a business, you can fire non-performing people. Getting a person out of homelessness is... very non-linear. They may reject assistance for many, many years.
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Almost $4,000 for every homeless person isn’t relatively small
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the homeless population in this country isn't static, there are lots of people leaving and entering homelessness all the time because our social safety net sucks.
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part of the reason people distrust govt is that we get to see all of its mistakes, as well as its successes (which we take for granted). Philanthropy doesn't have to report its effectiveness to anyone else but its primary donor(s) so we don't know when it does or doesn't work
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Con: it's anti-democratic to have an economy and tax regime that allows guys like Bezos to amass billions in wealth and then rely on them to make decisions to donate (and get a tax write off) their billions to address social problems caused in the first place by inequality.
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Couldn't fit that in there so thanks!
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Are the schools already existing or is he funding the creation of new ones?
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that part is the part where he's funding something new.
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