A huge problem with this approach is that your intuition is really bad at judging such approaches, for several reasons. 1) your situation is vastly different than those of the people you’re trying to help 2) unlike almost everything else you evaluate in life, you get no feedback unless you specifically seek it out 3) the effects you’re trying to judge are far in the future. Given that there are many more ways to waste resources than to do something effective, this means that unless you have very strong evidence that what you’re doing is effective, you’re almost surely simply wasting resources by focusing on such approaches.
A huge problem with this approach is that your intuition is really bad at judging such approaches, for several reasons. 1) your situation is vastly different than those of the people you’re trying to help 2) unlike almost everything else you evaluate in life, you get no feedback unless you specifically seek it out 3) the effects you’re trying to judge are far in the future. Given that there are many more ways to waste resources than to do something effective, this means that unless you have very strong evidence that what you’re doing is effective, you’re almost surely simply wasting resources by focusing on such approaches.