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Not so long ago the author warned that non-profits are a "magnet for sociopaths" because "their defining feature is to make no profit" and there's "no intrinsic
by dougb5 6y ago
Not so long ago the author warned that non-profits are a "magnet for sociopaths" because "their defining feature is to make no profit" and there's "no intrinsic accountability".
(https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124254508232663040?lang=en https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1124254508232663040?lang=en).
I thought this was an odious and wrong thing to say for many reasons and it made me think that while he clearly has a lot of experience with non-profits of a certain kind or scale or connection to tech VC, maybe it's not so broad-based. And it's hard for me to square this attitude with this new blog post: If there's no intrinsic accountability, then how do unrestricted gifts help? Shouldn't gifts provide some of that accountability? The best interpretation I can come up with is "Apply very strict conditions to where you decide to donate, but when you do, do it unconditionally".