@NoJoke said in #21:
> Any charity that thinks they have competitors is a bad charity, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they aren't a charity at all.
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> The point of a charity is not to raise money, that's called a business. If your charity feeds the poor, other people feeding the poor should be your allies, not your enemies.
Charities compete in terms of resources (as @piazzai pointed out), effectivness, influence or even ideology. Lichess is a charity that aims to promote online chess. Another charity might promote primitivism and encourage people not to use computers and smartphones. That's a competition. You could argue that it doesn't necessarily imply a bad spirit and that interesting things could come out of cooperating and joining the effort. In some cases, yes. You can promote chess offline too. In other cases, there could be nothing to share and both charities would have completely different visions for the world.
> Any charity that thinks they have competitors is a bad charity, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they aren't a charity at all.
>
> The point of a charity is not to raise money, that's called a business. If your charity feeds the poor, other people feeding the poor should be your allies, not your enemies.
Charities compete in terms of resources (as @piazzai pointed out), effectivness, influence or even ideology. Lichess is a charity that aims to promote online chess. Another charity might promote primitivism and encourage people not to use computers and smartphones. That's a competition. You could argue that it doesn't necessarily imply a bad spirit and that interesting things could come out of cooperating and joining the effort. In some cases, yes. You can promote chess offline too. In other cases, there could be nothing to share and both charities would have completely different visions for the world.