Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats
Yup. Money isn&#x27;t the issue with nonprofits (well aside from paying your execs multiples of the max on the GS scale while whining if the low level staffers ask to be paid in line with the GS payscale)<p>The issue is they pay their executives $$$$$ while insisting low level employees take much less than they&#x27;d make as <i>government employees</i> while feeling entitled to shape someone&#x27;s career for the rest of their LIFE if they leave the organization on bad terms.<p>Someone told me &quot;<i>no one gets fired on K street</i>&quot;. I did. I moved in with my parents, learned to code, and signed a lease in line with my budget on an apartment in my home county, where yet another nonprofit profited from my knowledge while abusing me.<p>Ex: look at page 7 here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdt.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;CDT-2015-990-FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdt.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;CDT-2015-990-FINA...</a><p>Then look here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opm.gov&#x2F;policy-data-oversight&#x2F;pay-leave&#x2F;salaries-wages&#x2F;salary-tables&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2022&#x2F;DCB.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opm.gov&#x2F;policy-data-oversight&#x2F;pay-leave&#x2F;salaries...</a><p>The entitlement of these entities is astounding.<p>You can only repeat the same confidence tricks so many times before men with guns come into your house like it&#x27;s Belfast in the 80s or you have civil unrest on an unprecedented scale.<p>I&#x27;ve interviewed places that went on to full on unionize, then applied again after the unionization thinking I could discard my previous extremely disrespectful experiences that were hand waved away, only to have people conduct the process like I&#x27;m trying to order a vodka mate at Waterfall[6].<p>(As in conducting the interview with dripping sarcasm and a tone like they&#x27;re going to try to put a cigarette out on me, which is not something I want done, though thanks for the hole in my best black t-shirt because I decided to go to the club they didn&#x27;t write about in LA Times or whatever.)<p>I&#x27;m gonna swing back to a research project I&#x27;m working on in a moment, but it says everything about thew state of nonprofits all the world over that when back before the 2020 election, I asked my bank for a safe deposit box and a funeral home for a pointer on someone who can draw up a will that it felt like the entire planet lost their minds. (They didn&#x27;t help with either, since I&#x27;m not a boomer, and so I closed my account. Enjoy the bank run and stock crash, you rude little woman!)<p>The insurrection was <i>illegal</i>, and murder is <i>bad</i>, but unfortunately I think it took events like that, or the power failure in Texas[2] or the condo collapse in Florida[3] are what it took to teach folks that pairing no income tax at the state level with hatred of &quot;feds&quot; and sales tax will end with you sitting alone in your McMansion or condo, wondering if it will collapse in on you due to an extreme weather event, or a nuclear strike conducted by a rouge state you insisted via your purposefully terrible voting be handled with kid gloves[4][5].<p>At the end of the day, the world we are seeing on the news today is the one that folks from generations prior to mine (including GenX) very violently insisted on.<p>I&#x27;m on the autistic spectrum -- I know people sometimes say one thing and mean another, so all I can do is try to put enough information out there that people can try to make good decisions under uncertainty.<p>(I wrote the above while pounding espresso that I put on my Capital One[8] card, since based on my interactions with their employees I don&#x27;t think they care if I pay my bill, and there&#x27;s no cash in MY wallet.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;google-funded-think-tank-fires-google-critic-1798627458" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;google-funded-think-tank-fires-google-cr...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;17&#x2F;968577281&#x2F;what-went-wrong-with-the-electric-grid-in-texas" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;17&#x2F;968577281&#x2F;what-went-wrong-wit...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;26&#x2F;1031245430&#x2F;surfside-condo-collapse-corrosion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;26&#x2F;1031245430&#x2F;surfside-condo-col...</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;21&#x2F;1100547908&#x2F;russia-ends-natural-gas-exports-to-finland" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;21&#x2F;1100547908&#x2F;russia-ends-natura...</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;1072385995&#x2F;north-korea-is-testing-hypersonic-weapons-should-the-west-be-worried" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;1072385995&#x2F;north-korea-is-tes...</a>
[6] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;water-gate.de&#x2F;de&#x2F;contact&#x2F;location&#x2F;location.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;water-gate.de&#x2F;de&#x2F;contact&#x2F;location&#x2F;location.html</a>
[7] I changed my SSID, you&#x27;re not as smart as you think :-)
[8] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;woman-accused-of-capital-one-hack-had-stolen-data-from-30-companies-authorities-say&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;woman-accused-of...</a>