A Wise Use of Resources

For my Business class, I recently wrote about how businesses that want to help others are best off donating money to the charities that help others, rather than trying to help others directly. My argument was that the businesses don't always know the best ways to help people, since they focus on improving their product or service and maintaining decent profits. Non-profit organizations, meanwhile, focus on helping others. Non-profits don't always have enough resources, and for-profits don't always have the right ideas, but together, they can do great things.

Most of us have good intentions, but we don't always know what's best. That's why we should listen to people who are wiser than we are, who understand the situation better than we do, and consider following their advice. We may have all the resources we need to do the right thing, but that won't help us much while we're still struggling to figure out what the right thing to do is. If we listen to the right people, we can put our time, energy, and other resources to better use than we could if we wasted time and energy trying to figure it out on our own. It's better to listen to the people who have devoted their lives to figuring this out and who seem to know a lot better than we do.