>>That's no better than charity. It's so easy to be generous with other people's money and feel important at that. The same spherical geometry theorem applies.
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>Not sure I understand what you are saying. Giving your own money seems to have a little more sincerity attached ( though I grant you part of the motive is also to think well of oneself ) than being infinitely generous with other people's money.

There are two prerequisites for charity: 1) I have the money, and 2) they don't. For charity to work, you first need the poor (as its raison d'etre), and then the rich (as those who "have made this programming possible"). In the end, you have the charity industry, the whole apparatus which consumes a lot (in some cases up to 90%) of the money collected. And they all enjoy the feel-good sentiment, thinking that they are doing the "underprivileged" (ranks among the most stinking euphemisms I ever heard) a big favor.

Actually, they're just patching the system, fixing some of the symptoms here and there, while most of the time doing nothing substantial to fight the causes. But they feel good doing that.