&gt; Even assuming that the money your spending is being put to good use (and there is at least some evidence that makes people skeptical)<p>This is a legitimate criticism of NGOs, but it&#x27;s also one of the ways in which capitalism is counterproductive to reducing poverty. Many of the cases in which aid spending is misused result from corporate interests determining where the money is spent instead of the people who need aid. An ongoing example of this is the milk lobby pushing for milk in food drops in areas where nearly everyone is genetically lactose-intolerant, or water aid going to buy Coca Cola&#x27;s bottled water instead of building sustainable water utilities and infrastructure. One of the reasons I left the NGO I worked at was that I felt they didn&#x27;t do a good job of decoupling the aid programs they supported from corporate interests.<p>&gt; where do you think the money you&#x27;re obtaining comes from?<p>Governments, who in turn get it from taxpayers. The exact system that free market capitalists rail against. And if capitalist corporations didn&#x27;t evade taxes so deftly, maybe I&#x27;d have obtained more. Certainly democratic-socialist governments give more aid per-capita than more capitalistic ones.<p>Instead of asking leading questions as if they proved your point, why don&#x27;t you try actually making an argument? Yes, much of the revenue I&#x27;ve obtained is indirectly generated within a capitalist system. But if you want to argue that capitalism produces more aid than the alternatives would, that&#x27;s ridiculous.