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Nathan @NathanpmYoung

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Nathan [magnifier icon] [verified] @NathanpmYoung · 1h

I wish we had better options for helping these people than curing diseases. I wish we could help create functional societies that could pay for these things on their own.

I am grateful to GiveWell and glad for the mothers whose children survive but I want better.

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Henri Thunberg [gold diamond badge] @HenriThunberg · 5h

we (givewell) are so back

[attached bar chart]
Funds Raised (in $millions) by metrics year
Legend: Coefficient Giving (millions) [grey]; Other Donors (millions) [blue]
Y axis: Funds Raised, $0 to $800
X axis: Metrics Year
Totals labelled above bars: 2012 $11; 2013 $20; 2014 $35; 2015 $120; 2016 $114; 2017 $144; 2018 $159; 2019 $171; 2020 $293; 2021 $595; 2022 $603; 2023 $355; 2024 $415; 2025 $616
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

X post by Nathan Young (@NathanpmYoung) lamenting that disease-curing is the available option for helping poor populations rather than building functional societies, quoting a Henri Thunberg post ('we (givewell) are so back') with a stacked bar chart of GiveWell funds raised 2012-2025, split between Coefficient Giving (grey) and other donors (blue). Chart totals transcribed from the visible labels; the per-segment split is not labelled.

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