Give Karma a Helping Hand: How to Leverage Your Charitable Donations to Build Better Habits
Karma provides the bridge between cause and effect separated by time.
— Paraphrased from the Encyclopedia Britannica.
We’d all like to believe that doing good deeds in the present (cause) will lead to good consequences in the future (effect). The problem is that Karma does not offer any guarantee that good deeds will be rewarded any time soon. In fact, the reward may only come in a future life!
But what if we could give Karma a little nudge? What if we could take a good deed, like regular charitable donations, and mold it into a guaranteed positive effect, like lifelong healthy eating habits?
Today’s article shares an attractively simple and extremely effective method to do just that.
Want to Break a Bad Habit? Make It Expensive
Last week’s article got all worked up about capitalism’s greatest failure: all those ultra-addictive nutrient-free calorie-bombs that impose such a terrible burden on individuals and society alike.
Fixing this problem is laughably simple in theory: tax different foods according to the well-understood long-term…
