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tacocat  ·  2255 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what are your thoughts on charities?

I mean who doesn't like charities. My problem is with people who think they do a better job of helping people than the part of society that literally has a record of almost everyone and what kind of help they might need.

When I lived in Alabama this summer and needed medicine I went to the university mental health clinic and had to apply for charity to pay the public university not to help me (it's a long, stupid story). UAB sent me a bill for about $300 for a twenty minute assessment which I threw away.

Georgia has a surprisingly robust public mental health infrastructure and I get medicine now with limited difficulty off the rip.

I've stayed in 100% charity housing that was varying levels of difficulty to get into from easy to fuck you, go away.

Yeah. It's cool. It serves a purpose. But the rich people who think it's a magic bullet for societal ills haven't had to rely on charity and the real world experience of getting help from a charity isn't sunshine and blow jobs.