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False. Absolutely false.
If I suddenly had 800 billion dollars, I would achieve a one-in-a-lifetime state of happiness by immediately donating it all.
Donation is pointless at that level since it ends up just creating new avenues of graft and exploitation as it's distributed.
Using it to build up strike funds, arm revolutionary groups, supply existing orgs with support, and create viable cooperative alternatives to existing industries might work. But at that level your $800bn really only exists as a representation of your stake in a system that is diametrically opposed to that kind of action.
I'd buy all of America's military and hand it all to some quirked up maoist trans girl
800b would get you like three missiles and a tank.
Shop Chinese instead.
So you're suggesting that that altruism is the key to happiness?
Pretty much, yah.
Go find a community kitchen or something, you'll see what I mean.
In that context, intent and motive matters. If a deed brings internal satisfaction (e.g. feeling good, relief, moral gratification, avoiding guilt, avoiding feeling like a monster) then it has a personal benefit, which negates true selflessness.
Doing good aligns with your values. That alignment feels good. It's not entirely selfless. Thereβs still a psychological incentive. That's still a form of gain. Even the burdened altruist gets something. If not peace, then at least the ability to function without drowning in self-loathing.
And if we start changing the definition of "selflessness" then it renders the entire argument moot.
Check. Your move.
Don't care
You cared enough to respond.
Donating it all is stupid.
Instead, build entire fucking utopian cities, and watch the people there make themselves money/happiness.
Instead of watching your donation get squandered.
Wow, elitism! Eat shit!
You can't instantly make everyone well off, you start with one small region, and you make good behavior standard there. Others see it, and copy it over time, because it works.
That is the theory.