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How to Give More Effectively

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Difference Between Charity and Charity

In the united states, training a guide dog to help a blind person cost about 50 thousand dollars. In the developing world, there is an infectious disease called tracoma that can be treated with a simple surgical procedure that costs less than a hundred dollars. The difference in impact is about a thousand times riht. For the cost of helping one person in the united states manage their blindness, you can prevent 500, even a thousand, people from going blind in the first place by having tracoma surgery.

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