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Everytime Wikipedia comes up on hacker news there's always comments about how they're wasteful and incompetent. What is this self righteous anger for? They're

• xyzzyz 6y ago
  It is anger at the collapse of every institution of our society, most of which have transformed away from their original purpose, and into sinecures for well-educated and well-connected professionals, who, under false pretenses, skim the surplus by lying about what they do, and shaming the productive masses into supporting them. I admit that I'm also full of wishful thinking. I said that once they go bankrupt, someone more competent will take over, but there's no guarantee of that -- instead, it is highly likely that some other skilled and well-connected grifter will assume control, will keep the "crying Jimbo Wales" ads to shame people into giving them money they spend on salaries and travel expenses of people doing things that do not need to be done, and often things that Wikipedia community doesn't even want done.
  • Hallucinaut 6y ago
    I have to admit I was unaware until this thread that the call for urgent donations was despite this endowment and their expenses other than directly operating wikipedia.org. Thanks for that eye-opener.