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Well, I think this ties in pretty well with the quote from Oscar Wilde posted here last week, which was quickly retorted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
by mrpopo 5y ago
Well, I think this ties in pretty well with the quote from Oscar Wilde posted here last week, which was quickly retorted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29413173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29413173
"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table?"-- Oscar Wilde
- echelon 5y agoI retorted it because the top level commentary was speaking critically and negatively about the donations being made by MacKenzie Scott. She's donating more than anyone else, yet people are complaining about it.
- lnxg33k1 5y agohttps://gen.medium.com/the-case-against-philanthropy-c36b83d7007f https://gen.medium.com/the-case-against-philanthropy-c36b83d...