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With a donor-advised fund, you don’t have to worry about taxes or paperwork. You don’t have to give away 5% of the fund’s assets each year either. In my experience, donor-advised funds tend to have lower fees. You can donate appreciated stock to a donor-advised fund pretty easily and get a tax break that year for donating to charity.
Nine Hard-Won Lessons About Money and Investing
mattcutts.com
Society can be destroyed when further growth of mass production renders the milieu hostile, when it extinguishes the free use of the natural abilities of society’s members, when it isolates people from each other and locks them into a man-made shell, when it undermines the texture of community by promoting extreme social polarization and splintering specialization, or when cancerous acceleration enforces social change at a rate that rules out legal, cultural, and political precedents as formal guidelines to present behavior.
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
Of course, everything has gone wrong. A few weeks into coronavirus quarantine, a reader who had cleaned out his home according to the decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s ultra-popular KonMari method emailed me to ask if I had heard from anyone else who was regretting that move. He’d been happy with the results until the country’s circumstances had abruptly changed, and his family ended up reordering some of the same board games and casual diversions they had parted with back when their lives were busier and the boxes were taking up space in a closet.
The End of Minimalism
theatlantic.com
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