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I'm in Saigon right now. This morning I had breakfast with an older guy who is working to stop trafficking and AIDS in Cambodia. Three weeks ago or so, I was walking through the slums of Saigon - literally, no exaggerating, dangerous very poor slums. They were past the train tracks by the canal, if you know the city. > Growing up in the Western world, most of us are used to the luxuries that we receive on a daily bas…
1. Are you focusing on foreign or domestic charities (or just playing it by ear)?
2. Settled on anything yet?
I'm in Saigon right now. This morning I had breakfast with an older guy who is working to stop trafficking and AIDS in Cambodia. Three weeks ago or so, I was walking through the slums of Saigon - literally, no exaggerating, dangerous very poor slums. They were past the train tracks by the canal, if you know the city. > Growing up in the Western world, most of us are used to the luxuries that we receive on a daily bas…
While it seems most of HN would agree with our opinion, you also need to keep in mind most of it came from a combination of work, and the enslaving of another people. Should you not feel guilty for the people your ancestors screwed over to get you into the position you are in today?
Informative learning adds to our current bucket of knowledge.
Transformative learning examines the buckets themselves – our worldview and our various frames of reference relevant to this aspect or that aspect of what we are studying.
While both learning are valuable. Maybe our current education system focus too much on the latter. It might be good to have more Transformative Learning to facilitate shifting of Worldview and Frames of Reference in school.
I'm in Saigon right now. This morning I had breakfast with an older guy who is working to stop trafficking and AIDS in Cambodia. Three weeks ago or so, I was walking through the slums of Saigon - literally, no exaggerating, dangerous very poor slums. They were past the train tracks by the canal, if you know the city. > Growing up in the Western world, most of us are used to the luxuries that we receive on a daily bas…
> Last week, I committed to giving 10% of my income to charity henceforth forever. I've been doing this for about 3 years now and not once have I found myself regretting it or unable to afford anything that I want. I was originally inspired by some Muslim co-workers who told me about the compulsory charity that Islam prescribes for them, and the voluntary charity that they then make on top of it. 2.5% is compulsory f…
Something else that I recommend: Bump this up by 5% every few months and see how it works out. We can often get by with so little (especially people like me who have lived the miserly university life) and we can actually be /happy/ with it, that it just does not make sense to hold back.
I also like the idea of dedicated goals: For e.g. sponsor x children, feed x families etc. This helps solve the problem in manageable chunks and is easier for others to understand. (i.e. if every person helped x other people, we'd get rid of poverty/hunger).