---
title: "The Enough Question"
number: 22
statement: "How much money would it take to fix a specific problem at its source, and is it true that money isn’t the bottleneck?"
progress: "Costed source-level plans for specific problems, judged by independent experts, and a record of what happened when such plans were funded."
conditions: ["symptom-trap"]
status: open
bounty: "Unfunded. The Question Bounties program will attach prizes once it is funded."
sources:
  - {"title": "Humanity’s Checklist", "publisher": "Humanity’s Checklist", "year": 2026, "url": "https://humanityschecklist.org/"}
---

## Why it matters

Humanity’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.

## Where to start

Pick one problem, write the source-level plan, cost it, fund it and publish what happens, including if it fails.