I'd agree that relying purely on one's checkbook is not optimal. Hopefully there are ways that people can put time in too. But even someone who only donates money to groups who do something about problem xyz is doing something tangible. As opposed to status-update activism.
In the day or three after 9/11, countless Americans donated blood in gigantic lines all over the country with the idea that "the people in New York might need it". of course it wasn't, but I think there were probably thousands of people who benefitted from the extra supply of blood.
not the intended effect of the donor perhaps, but a very tangible result.
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Date: 2010-12-06 04:17 pm (UTC)In the day or three after 9/11, countless Americans donated blood in gigantic lines all over the country with the idea that "the people in New York might need it". of course it wasn't, but I think there were probably thousands of people who benefitted from the extra supply of blood.
not the intended effect of the donor perhaps, but a very tangible result.