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> "do you even realise what a service to humanity you are doing!".

I don’t know who needs to hear this besides me twenty years ago, but if you want to do charity then go home at 6pm and volunteer at a real charity. Don’t do it for a wannabe robber baron who will not share with you. Don’t do it for someone where even an emotional payoff is years away or may never come.

Find something else you care about and help some people just because. Not because you’re getting under-paid and over-guilted to do it.




Well even "real charity", including very famous ones, are quite shady too: volunteers do work for free while donations goes towards C-exec 5-6 digits salaries.




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