I have to admit, I have become a bit disillusioned with charity. After contributing many hours with Glide church, serving homeless people in SF, participating in many events and fundraising, I feel like we rarely move the needle. Charity seems to be designed to just maintain the status quo. Last month, I spent a week in a French village near Lyon and I was surprised to see the quality of life in a small village in France - supposedly a socialist country with stagnant economy and high unemployment. That made me wonder whether persistent poverty is simply an outcome of a dynamic capitalist system and the only way to address it is some form of socialism or universal basic income.