All Ad Revenue To Charity
You may notice there are advertisements on this site -- which is perhaps a bit pushy for a personal blog and website. I have placed ads on this site for two reasons:
- To learn about web advertising, as it is related to my work
- To raise a tiny bit of money for a couple of good charities
I rant a bit about philosophy and religion (among other things) on this site. I hope that if you have read some of my ramblings and clicked through to this page, then you too are a bit of a critical thinker, and sometimes might consider the condition of others in our world. Most of us living in the developed world have far, far, more resources that we need for a basic non-suffering existence. Unfortunately, about a billion people do not.
I believe that any intelligent person has the creativity to put himself into that suffering person's mind for a moment, and understand that an amazingly trivial amount of help (for us) could go a long way. I'm guessing this is usually the point where most folks say "to heck with it." It's too hard to give or the money won't help, or what can a small donation do, etc.
Actually, it's amazingly easy to give a tiny bit of money. You can go to either of these two websites, and give a tiny amount now: Oxfam and MSF / Doctors Without Borders. Both are top-performing, well known, efficient organizations for improving the world. Even something as trivial as one-dollar a day is very, very useful. You do not have to give millions or devote your life to charity to have an impact.
About one billion people in the world can be called comfortable by the developed world's standards. About one billion are in grindingly oppressive poverty. It doesn't take a math genius to figure out the impact of those in the former group giving about a dollar a day to those in the latter.
So here's my contribution -- I'll earn an extra dollar a day (more or less) through my efforts at running this website, and then send my earnings to the two charities listed above.
What will you do?
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