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  "text": "---\ntitle: \"The Enough Question\"\nnumber: 22\nstatement: \"How much money would it take to fix a specific problem at its source, and is it true that money isn’t the bottleneck?\"\nprogress: \"Costed source-level plans for specific problems, judged by independent experts, and a record of what happened when such plans were funded.\"\nconditions: [\"symptom-trap\"]\nstatus: open\nbounty: \"Unfunded. The Question Bounties program will attach prizes once it is funded.\"\nsources:\n  - {\"title\": \"Humanity’s Checklist\", \"publisher\": \"Humanity’s Checklist\", \"year\": 2026, \"url\": \"https://humanityschecklist.org/\"}\n---\n\n## Why it matters\n\nHumanity’s Checklist points out that hundreds of billions of dollars go to charity every year, and asks what would happen if $5 million, spent correctly, were enough to go after the six sources upstream of every world problem. Charitology treats that as a hypothesis to test, not a slogan. If money really isn’t the bottleneck, the field should find out what is.\n\n## Where to start\n\nPick one problem, write the source-level plan, cost it, fund it and publish what happens, including if it fails.\n",
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