Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for help? How do others ignore them without feeling bad? - eviltoast

I want to give them money but since my childhood my parents pretty much told me that they are all either faking it or are too lazy to go to work for money. I mean, I guess they can go to work but not everyone gets accepted to work as easy as it sounds like.

  • bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    So first off, you can totally volunteer for government things. I mean, I can volunteer at my local government library for instance, there’s nothing about a government contract that removes the ability to volunteer.

    But I wouldn’t need to have volunteers if the red cross and all competing charities were swallowed up into one thing.

    There are a bunch of organizations that do the same or part of what the red cross does. That’s a lot of wasted time of resources, that would be better spent lumped together as a collective unit.

    Charity is simply one of the places you absolutely don’t want competition/capitalism. You want oversight and efficiency, that’s the government.