• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    At the same time there were a lot of homeless charities do actually tell you that it’s better to donate to the charity than is to the homeless person. Because they will just spend the money (obviously) whereas the charity can actually enforce change they can make use of the money in ways that will help more than just one person.

    Of course the real thing to do would be to get into politics and actually affect political change but that’s difficult because politics has momentum like everything else and it’s difficult to get it to radically change stuff quickly.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      You have to be careful of charities that say they’re forcing the person to change for their own good. Often they do more harm than good. It is true though that soup kitchen charities can stretch a dollar further.