> it's just as dangerous of an assumption to assume that poorer people would waste money given to them I wasn't saying all poor people do this (only some do),

> it's just as dangerous of an assumption to assume that poorer people would waste money given to them I wasn't saying all poor people do this (only some do), and I wasn't saying they behave differently from rich people! I was just saying that when you're running a charity, you think twice before donating money directly, because _some_ poor people end up abusing it -- and it's a lot harder to abuse food and shelter than it is to use money. For all I know, I think poor people would probably make better judgment calls than rich people, but that's orthogonal to what I'm saying (re-read the above if that doesn't make sense).