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by boeingUH60 1143 days ago
Even theft and grift aside...many charities are just bad at achieving their goals. They think they're helping but end up causing more problems, e.g., food aid destroying the local farming industry.

For instance, the Red Cross raised $500 million for Haiti relief and ended up achieving virtually nothing due to extensive mismanagement and arrogance (trying to apply Western methods in a third-world country) [1].

Similarly to you, I detest all non-profit organizations. Rather have a for-profit organization or the government solve issues...but these still have their own issues.

1- https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-re...

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Even beyond that $13.5B was raised from various sources for a country of 11.45M people and not much came out of it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/01/12/3761388...