{"items": [{"author": "Cecile", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/614507814292?comment_id=614991345292", "anchor": "fb-614991345292", "service": "fb", "text": "If money donated to disaster relief doesn't go nearly as far as money donated elsewhere, what would happen if people stopped donating to disaster relief? (not that that's likely given the emotional draw) Is the converse true, that money withheld from disaster relief does less \"damage\" to the relief effort than money withheld from other projects?", "timestamp": "1370197120"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/614507814292?comment_id=615031410002", "anchor": "fb-615031410002", "service": "fb", "text": "@Cecile: \"what would happen if people stopped donating to disaster relief?\"<br><br>If we imagine a world in which we spent nothing on disaster relief it's easy to imagine really cost effective ways of helping people.  So we shouldn't spend nothing on it, and I wouldn't say \"no one should give to disaster relief under any circumstances\".  But right now disaster relief is substantially \"overfunded\", in the sense that if we moved some money from it to other causes that are underfunded it would make people better off.", "timestamp": "1370218970"}]}