I learned some wisdom, that the value is not money (that's why they keep getting rid of it, in exchange for actual value).
I am not the "us" you mention, seems like it sure would be nice if a few dollars was only a tiny little bit.
However, I am also not the "others" you mention. Does that make sense? When I pitched in the entire $60 or whatever it was the first time I paid for MLO, I was giving nearly everything I had. Call it my autism, but extremely exausting to work out that much all at once and then try to still have a place to live but that's another story.
I just want people to know that it is not a tiny little action, for some of us but it doesn't mean we wouldn't help if we know a way that we could fit in.
I started trying to help my oldest brother because since our parents died nobody has given him money or bought his house to bail him out. After several years of letting him wear down my car because he already took the last breaths out of his, then I even acquired another car because someone else owed me money, and transferred the title to him. Now that car won't drive (probably ruined transmission by not taking care of), so back to me not having my car which I can't afford now to repair if it breaks down...
At the same time my previous wife had a young deer run it's head through the side of her car and so she borrows the car when she can't drive her mothers car because it is needed for doctors...
Anyway, I'm saying that there is never enough to go to everyone who needs it, so I'm learning to just accept that the reason I have nothing isn't all bad. At least I'm helping as many as I can right here around me. I also help those in the neighborhood who need help with their computers, because that is my value--even when I don't have numbers.
Best wishes to the remaining billions whom I have not been able to help enough. There is a time when we do need to feel bad, if we were not at least doing what we can to help at least somebody.