Just have a place people can look as per Jeff Kaufman. Example conversation:
A: ”… [taxes | charity | income | giving back | etcetera].” B: “Ho-ho! [Obligatory calculated utility vs. warm fuzzies preface], so I try to just pick a percentage and be done with it.” C: “How much do you give?” B: “I’d have to check to precise—I keep a log on [ ___ ] to keep track. I feel a lot better for example giving my falafel to a starving puppy on the street than picking my donation percentage, but knowing I do donate, and do so efficiently, helps me live with myself.” A: “What percentage on average do you give?” B: “Depends on the year, financial pressures, how much I want to spend on personal things—honestly, I’d have to check. (I do remember my first year I managed to donate around [ __%])” C: “So you don’t really care about donating to charities, but do it anyway to make you feel better about yourself?” A: “That sort of contradicts the whole spirit of giving-” B: “Sorry, I should have been clearer. When I think about what I want to do with my life, the answer always comes back to: help as many people as much as I can. I’m not particularly suited to accomplish that goal in any means besides making money, so I make money and donate in order to satisfy my ambition. However, the whole act is remarkably lacking in emotional impact—I know I’m horrible for feeling this, but when I hear about others giving to pet causes they haven’t scrutinised, I feel like I’m better than them. That’s about the extent of the emotional impact of donating, for me. Help someone personally, though, and I feel like Superman.” A: “Your said goal in life is to help a bunch of people a whole lot, right?” B: “Essentially, yes.” A: “But fulfilling that goal doesn’t make you happy—it just lets you get by; you do other ‘personal’ things to be happy, for which you spend money from time to time.” B: “Pretty much.” A: “And you feel like you’re better than other people because you think your cause(s) help(s) more people.” B: “It’s still great they donate, but I get frustrated they don’t put more effort into it, and I feel good about myself for having done the effort.” C: “Do you think you’re better than us?” B: “I’m afraid the logical conclusion of this hypothetical would be yes. Perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned the superiority complex bit.” A: “Yes, perhaps not.” C: “We might have caught on, then.” B: “Terribly sorry.” A: “Quite alright.” C: “Yes. Have a good night.” A: “Yes.” B: ”...(sigh)”
Just have a place people can look as per Jeff Kaufman. Example conversation:
A: ”… [taxes | charity | income | giving back | etcetera].”
B: “Ho-ho! [Obligatory calculated utility vs. warm fuzzies preface], so I try to just pick a percentage and be done with it.”
C: “How much do you give?”
B: “I’d have to check to precise—I keep a log on [ ___ ] to keep track. I feel a lot better for example giving my falafel to a starving puppy on the street than picking my donation percentage, but knowing I do donate, and do so efficiently, helps me live with myself.”
A: “What percentage on average do you give?”
B: “Depends on the year, financial pressures, how much I want to spend on personal things—honestly, I’d have to check. (I do remember my first year I managed to donate around [ __%])”
C: “So you don’t really care about donating to charities, but do it anyway to make you feel better about yourself?”
A: “That sort of contradicts the whole spirit of giving-”
B: “Sorry, I should have been clearer. When I think about what I want to do with my life, the answer always comes back to: help as many people as much as I can. I’m not particularly suited to accomplish that goal in any means besides making money, so I make money and donate in order to satisfy my ambition. However, the whole act is remarkably lacking in emotional impact—I know I’m horrible for feeling this, but when I hear about others giving to pet causes they haven’t scrutinised, I feel like I’m better than them. That’s about the extent of the emotional impact of donating, for me. Help someone personally, though, and I feel like Superman.”
A: “Your said goal in life is to help a bunch of people a whole lot, right?”
B: “Essentially, yes.”
A: “But fulfilling that goal doesn’t make you happy—it just lets you get by; you do other ‘personal’ things to be happy, for which you spend money from time to time.”
B: “Pretty much.”
A: “And you feel like you’re better than other people because you think your cause(s) help(s) more people.”
B: “It’s still great they donate, but I get frustrated they don’t put more effort into it, and I feel good about myself for having done the effort.”
C: “Do you think you’re better than us?”
B: “I’m afraid the logical conclusion of this hypothetical would be yes. Perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned the superiority complex bit.”
A: “Yes, perhaps not.”
C: “We might have caught on, then.”
B: “Terribly sorry.”
A: “Quite alright.”
C: “Yes. Have a good night.”
A: “Yes.”
B: ”...(sigh)”