Which I suppose it is, to some extent for most people, but it seems like it shouldn’t and it’s unfortunate to be encouraging that mode of thinking.
You don’t encourage it, you use it. It will be there no matter what you do as humans are social creatures under heavy competition. We can speculate about the reasons but it is what it is.
Would be happier with a calculator that instead suggests an equivalent of the money to be donated considering tax-deductibility? I am imagining something like “You can donate $10k per year to do X, equivalent to about Y1 number of coffees, Y2 movie tickets, Y3 beers, …” The point of htese calculators is to visualise the stark contrast in life between first world countries and target nations.
You don’t encourage it, you use it. It will be there no matter what you do
It will, I’m sure, but I think the boundary between using and encouraging is a fuzzy one. (So, I guess, is the boundary between discouraging and denying. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not saying we shouldn’t pretend people don’t care about relative status. Just that we shouldn’t prompt them to think in those terms.)
a calculator that instead suggests an equivalent of the money to be donated
Thank you.
You don’t encourage it, you use it. It will be there no matter what you do as humans are social creatures under heavy competition. We can speculate about the reasons but it is what it is.
Would be happier with a calculator that instead suggests an equivalent of the money to be donated considering tax-deductibility? I am imagining something like “You can donate $10k per year to do X, equivalent to about Y1 number of coffees, Y2 movie tickets, Y3 beers, …” The point of htese calculators is to visualise the stark contrast in life between first world countries and target nations.
It will, I’m sure, but I think the boundary between using and encouraging is a fuzzy one. (So, I guess, is the boundary between discouraging and denying. For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not saying we shouldn’t pretend people don’t care about relative status. Just that we shouldn’t prompt them to think in those terms.)
Yes, I think that would be healthier.