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Well known, and supposedly honourable charities, in the UK have been exposed by the press as greedy charlatans. Head honchos on a quarter million salaries which they can double with bonuses. I remember a cynical joke by a visiting American comedian many years ago, who said that if you wanted to get rich, go to the US and start a religion. Nowadays it's go to the UK and start a charity.
I once worked for a publishing company whose CEO was a big believer in United Way, a sort of umbrella agency that raises massive amounts of dough and doles it out (some of it, anyway) to various not-for-profit social service agencies and the like.
So every year all the employees attended a mandatory meeting at the company headquarters to listen to this a**hole give his spiel and get us all to “voluntarily” donate a portion of our pay to United Way. His getting 100 percent participation made him some sort of star in the United Way galaxy.
He’s been dead a few years now. Too bad it didn’t happen a few years earlier. I had far better uses for that money.