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People with nothing are the most generous
They appreciate the act more. They know how much it means.
Ah, the cogs is the child crushing machine. Very wholesome but also very bleak.
Many years ago, I was with some fellow volunteers outside a popular shopping mall, raising money for a new ambulance. There were many people who could have obviously been able to spare a bill or two, but they were too full of themselves to even look at our faces, let alone the fliers we were handing out.
Then one old guy with a bottle of beer in one hand and dressed like that was his only dinner came out of the shop, looked at us, and put his beer change in our bucket, saying something along the lines of “you do something important”.
Made our day.
Those people who were “too full of themselves” might have their own problems, and they might also donate in other places unseen by you.
Poor people give away a much higher percentage of their wealth than rich people.
This seems plausible, so I searched and found this on the Wikipedia:
Various studies have examined who gives more to charity. A study in the United States found that as income decreases, charitable giving increases as a percentage of income. For instance, the poorest fifth of Americans donated 4.3% of their income, while the wealthiest fifth donated 2.1%. In absolute terms, this translated to an average donation of $453 from an average income of $10,531, compared to $3,326 from an income of $158,388.
Ya, and I can only speak for myself, but I don’t have a lot to give to charity so when I do it sure as heck isn’t random. There’s far too many scammy charities out there for that, I don’t donate anything without at least a little researching first.
raising money for a new ambulance
JFC
Also doesn’t an ambulance cost like 200.000$? How many “bills or two” were you expecting.
I was a treasurer for a rescue squad that operates solely off donations. We did not go out in person to solicit donations. We had a very organized mailing effort that went to the community, on top of folks just being rescued, and feeling compelled, I guess, to give back a little.
Ambulances cost a fuckton. Not just to buy, but to maintain and use. We always said just pulling out of the garage was $100. And we were all volunteer so it’s strictly maintaining the rigs.
The squad continues to operate, but they are a dying breed, nearly extinct at this point, which is a shame but understandable.
Why are they so much more expensive than a normal box truck?
IIRC, The first ambulance for Reid Hospital was donated by a cycling club, the League of American Wheelman. This was around 1905.
Why cyclists? They had been the ones advocating for better road conditions at the time.
A number of hospitals still run as non-profits and accept donations.
Assuming this happened in the US, I’d outwardly be kind to the volunteers but inside is be screaming, “buy your own fucking ambulance!”. As much as they charge us to ride in one, there’s no reason to ask the public to buy it for them, too.
at airport when I was a broke student on my last dollar, I booked the wrong ticket home. the only choice I had was to buy a new one one for $2000. I went out the airport door, sat on the floor, put my head down between my knees and started sobbing silently and hopelessly because I felt the whole world was against everything I try to do. Then out of nowhere, a lufthansa airline employee told me to come inside and changed my ticket for another that works for just $200. I know that employee put themselves in trouble to save me. until today I wish I could pay them for what they did. they are the reason that I’ve done and continued to do many silimar deeds for strangers since.
Many travellers don’t realise that you can get very cheap Lufthansa flights if you agree to fly the plane.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Let’s play make it unwholesome, I’ll start:
He was expecting you to buy him something more expensive out of the kindness of your heart the ~$2.00 strap was an investment, he just didn’t expect you to be so cold as to take a homeless man’s last dollar and not repay the kindness.
Nah, let’s not. Dicking on the unhoused is the very definition of punching down.
You are confusing the generosity of the poor with mindset of the rich
I don’t think it’s unwholesome to hustle for an artist management job, I reckon if he’s helping the guy out then as a manager he should be getting 10% of busking earnings…
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Banned thanks sloth
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how many replies, bot?
so?lolololololol
Can I ask how you knew they were a bot?
They spammed 80 comments in their first 45 minutes: thousands of words, hundreds of paragraphs, zero typos/edits…“this is peak energy/chaos/fave_word”…often 3 paragraphs ending with a “call to action”, ie same formats…spamming in German comms too…grok, apparently.
There is a human puppeteer too.
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