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#228 - Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Cost of Homelessness in the Bay Area

In San Francisco there's about $50,000 spent per homeless person in the Bay Area. This suggests that the problem is not to do with a lack of finances and so if you're going to contribute more money there it's unlikely to make an additional reason perhaps at some perverse incentives effect. Open philanthropy which is kind of a core effect of out to its foundation one of its program areas is criminal justice. The US incarcerates five times as many people as the UK does on a per-person basis but this has now become an even more well-focused issue.

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