Reddit reviews No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
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>do you disagree that my model is reasonable?
I don't think its a good model. To start with I don't know what c is, I'm assuming its supposed to be the actual benefit of whatever charity you do (if its not that, then your formula is incredibly flawed for not taking into account the recipient of charity). If that is the case c should not be a constant, giving a starving person food is not the same as giving them a new iphone. I also don't think you should multiply c and 'sum_of_others_happiness'. For one there is no evidence of a relationship between how effective your charitable giving is, and how happy people are about that charitable giving. There might even be a negative relationship, someone wrote an entire book about how the gates foundation is terrible.
>If everyone is perfectly rational and everyone has that utility function, then charitable givings has a tragedy of the commons problem and government intervention is beneficial. Do you agree?
I can't understand the equation so I don't know if it would actually lead to a tragedy of the commons situation. If it did lead to such a situation there are additional hurdles before it makes sense for government intervention. The main hurdle being: does government actually help the situation given public choice constraints.