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> I bought her a $1500 computer so she can learn about emails, and she hocked it for $300 because she was short for cash one day. You are so concerned about re
by wharvle 3y ago
> I bought her a $1500 computer so she can learn about emails, and she hocked it for $300 because she was short for cash one day.
You are so concerned about respecting agency, but then this also? Like this is so at-odds I’m not entirely sure whether you’re presenting it as an example of how aid to the poor doesn’t help, or an example of how if you’d respected this person’s agency your $1500 spent could have been $1500 in aid instead of $300.
- drekipus 3y agoYearly I give about $8000 to my sister, straight cash,. sometimes lump sums, other times, weekly amounts. Money doesn't mean anything if you don't know how to use it, neither does a computer for that matter, evidently. If you're so sure that just giving them money would help, go give your money to someone who needs it.
- wharvle 3y agoI apologize for that post. You brought a personal thing into the thread, but that doesn’t mean it was ok for me to dig at it the way I did. Sorry. [edit] to clarify my phrasing, I mean that just because you brought that into the thread, doesn’t make it fair game for the kind of post I made, which was too harsh by a long shot even if it hadn’t been about something personal.