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Why donating to disaster relief creates unrealistic expectations about individual impact

I donated a bunch of money to flood relief and now I keep checking the news to see if things are getting better like my contribution should have made a visible difference.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Generosity can become another attempt to control outcomes that are fundamentally beyond personal influence.

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