Oxfam - Exploiting Poverty since 1942

I saw an advert for Oxfam today where they claimed to be committed to ending poverty forever. That’s just a lie, a bare faced ugly lie. Oxfam is a business, they call themselves “not for profit”, and people think this means nobody is making any money out of it. Just because the business is not for profit, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a lot of people getting paid massive salaries to run the place. The reason it doesn’t make any profit is because so many people are getting paid huge salaries. You can’t seriously expect me to believe they’re genuinely committed to ending poverty.

Anyway, even if we assume they are, where’s the fucking plan for that eh? It’s all very well preaching at me and saying you’re “committed to ending poverty” but do you have any clue how you’re going to do it? No, no clue at all, just a stupid mission statement with no actual plan of action to go with it, but hey, that’s no reason not to make me feel guilty for not giving you all my money so you can piss it against the wall is it? Bastards.

Hardly any of the money organised charity raises actually goes to helping anyone, charities are businesses that function by making us all feel guilty so we give them money. We’re shown a poor person, or a sick cat, or some poor partially robotic child, then we’re overtly told that if we don’t contribute to some charity directors 75k a year salary, we’re bad people.

I’m not saying everyone that works in organised charity is a cunt. I’m just saying that organised charity is evil and stupid and that everyone that works in it is cunt. That’s all.

** Update **

I hoped most people would understand that the last paragraph in this article wasn’t meant to be taken seriously. I was wrong. Ordinarily people being stupid and not getting my point doesn’t bother me, but this time it does.

I have an extremely high opinion of the people who give up their time to raise money for charity for no personal reward, but that doesn’t mean I think organised charity is perfect. This advert was a lie, the people who are PAID to work for charities are just doing a job, if they were working for the charity simply because they cared about the cause, they’d be doing it for free. This isn’t a critisism of them, they need to make a living and they deserve to be paid, but it means that the people working for charities aren’t the same as people who are giving up their evenings and weekends to raise money simply out of the spirit of kindness. In order for charites to be run well, they employ successful business people, and these people are there because they’re good at their jobs, not because they care about the cause. Because of this, you have to accept that their motivation is money, not ending poverty, which would effectively end their job. This is an undeniable truth, and the fact is that organised charity is run and controlled by business people, not charitable people.