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It strikes me as incredibly psychopathic on the part of the operators to run charity scams like this. How do they justify it to themselves? Do other countries
by bhouston 7y ago
It strikes me as incredibly psychopathic on the part of the operators to run charity scams like this. How do they justify it to themselves?
Do other countries suffer similarly with fake self-serving charities like the US does?
- jacquesm 7y ago> How do they justify it to themselves? By looking at their bank accounts. > Do other countries suffer similarly with fake self-serving charities like the US does? Not quite, robocalling is much less common, as are easy ways to figure out who is a likely donor. A very good effort in this domain is Givewell, their own transparency report is a good example of how it should be done and their information is usually of very high quality: https://www.givewell.org/ https://www.givewell.org/ https://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes https://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes
- robk 7y agoOh my goodness it's so much worse in most of the world.
- anigbrowl 7y agoThe upside of being a psychopath is that you don't have to justify it to yourself; you sleep well as long as your belly is full. The downside is the amount of effort required to maintain a false persona that is persuasive to others. Smarter psychopaths don't get too hung up on that, instead finding less smart or well-resourced psychopaths willing to perform that work on their behalf, eg think of a cult leader who rarely appears in public or only issues bland truisms, and whose adherents maintain the reputation of the leader sufficiently carefully to assure a sufficient supply of new recruits, but not more than the cult organization can absorb without losing status or cohesion.