Can charity and philanthropy actually help us?

Question from the Internet:

“Why is advocating for more equitable funding and shifting power in philanthropy and global development important to us?”

It is not important to us at all — at this stage.

What we call “equitable funding” and “philanthropy” are just smokescreens to continue our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and exploitative activities in a way that we can feel good about them and can justify ourselves that we are “doing good”.

Pursuing such “lofty” ideas is even more harmful than outright exploiting each other openly.

Until we recognize and accept that by default, we simply cannot do anything “truly good” to others since everything we ever do is always driven by our self-serving, self-justifying and individualistic egos, we will never get closer to actual and effective solutions for our problems.

Until we all look into a brutally honest mirror to see that for each and every human being, all calculations start and end with the egocentric self, we will continue to blame, correct, censor, cancel and destroy each other while unconditionally justifying ourselves in any given situation.

So it is better if we forget about “equity”, philanthropy, charities and “saving the world” the way we do.

First of all, we all need to recognize who we are and what desires and intentions drive us so we can start the real remedy: methodically, willingly and purposefully changing and further developing ourselves until we reach a state where we can care for and serve others as least as we care for and serve ourselves by default.

Then we will understand what true “equity” and giving to others actually means.