Oh, right, the dreams.

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My dreams were rather strong last night. I dreamed several different dreams but they were all sort of connected. They had to do with the rich creating cushy jobs for themselves in order to help the poor. Charities are set up in which the functional CEO of the charity is paid hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars to hand out pennies to the poor. It just enraged me. That is part of the reason I despise most charities. It is why I disbelieve "government charities". The only difference between government and private charities is how many get a bigger piece of the pie.

I am sure there are some better charities, or charities go through cycles of suck and give. But when a charity worker is paid more than the president, can it really be called charity work? When dozens of people get paid huge salaries, can it really be said to be working for the poor? I simply don't buy into almost any charity I have ever seen in recent years. I remember hearing, about fifteen years ago, that the head of Good Will Industries was being paid (I think) $200 or $400 thousand dollars. Huh? I think I dreamed at least two along this line.

In another separate dream I heard about a charity being set up to get people to go to the funerals of indigents. People who died who had no one else to go to their funerals. Now, this interested me. Then I found out the money being raised for the charity was being used to put out an exquisite meal, so the thing was becoming a morbid scene of opulence. I became rather enraged and got the thing shut down. I continued working on the notion, getting people to attend the funerals and pray for the soul of the departed, but without food, fame, or personal gain of any sort being part of the queue.

Ah well, everyone knows and no one cares. They give to some of the bogus charities and think themselves better for it. Or once their political careers have ended they go on to "work for the poor". Or, whatever. I don't really care how much of a percentage goes to the poor themselves (though that is an issue), I do want to know how many are milking that money, for how much, and to what real good. I doubt most cancer charities, I am dubious of most "feed the poor" charities, I doubt most of it. Bah!

Later.