anomanissh
anomanissh t1_j18ijzl wrote
Reply to PSA: 'Effective Altruism' is a cult targeting high income earning tech nerds. It has all the signs of a cult. The marks don't realize that the non-profits they donate to are run by people who steal the money behind the scenes. by Positive-Material
> non-profits almost always are run by people who secretly steal the money.
Please provide even one reputable source for this opinion. There are bad people out there running nonprofits for personal gain, but it is a vanishingly small number.
anomanissh t1_izgxj2n wrote
Reply to comment by Nonsheeple_Funnyluv in Residents ‘Horrified’ Over Proposed Solar Farm Near Waltham/Lexington Line by ak47workaccnt
Oh whoops sorry. I misread your comment. I thought you were the one calling it a boomer argument.
anomanissh t1_izg0rli wrote
Reply to comment by Nonsheeple_Funnyluv in Residents ‘Horrified’ Over Proposed Solar Farm Near Waltham/Lexington Line by ak47workaccnt
You might disagree with the commenter, but their idea is so far from being a boomer point of view.
anomanissh t1_j19n7gu wrote
Reply to comment by Positive-Material in PSA: 'Effective Altruism' is a cult targeting high income earning tech nerds. It has all the signs of a cult. The marks don't realize that the non-profits they donate to are run by people who steal the money behind the scenes. by Positive-Material
You can dislike the effective altruism frame; I didn’t even comment on that and i have plenty of criticisms of it as well.
But part of your reasoning for why you dislike the frame, however, is clearly false. Again, you said:
> non-profits almost always are run by people who secretly steal the money.
Between 15-20% of workers in the state work for nonprofit employers. You’re saying almost all of these people work for crooks who are pocketing donations and have not a single statistic to back it up. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize the effective altruism framework, but this is not one of them.