"This piece on The New York Times editorial page is worth considering. From Peter Buffet: "Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left. There are plenty of statistics that tell us that inequality is continually rising. At the same time, according to the Urban Institute, the nonprofit sector has been steadily growing. ... It’s what I would call “conscience laundering” — feeling better about accumulating more than any one person could possibly need to live on by sprinkling a little around as an act of charity." "But this just keeps the existing structure of inequality in place." The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti (. . .) https://facebook/TheBigTruckThatWentBy?ref=stream&hc_location=stream nytimes/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html?_r=0
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