Why Is It So Hard to Quit Amazon? Because Shopping Is Labor.
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yoda and obi-wan after they fucked up and couldn’t stop the fall of democracy in the empire: we’re all lone hermits who ain’t been doing shit now.it’s gonna take someone to try and drag us into this shit again
luke, after going through similar shit: it’s the jedi way, i assume, i only met two tbh and assume this is how to react to that
Every time you say that you only donate to charities and non-profits with extremely low overhead and administrative costs, what you’re actually saying is that you’ll only support charities and non-profits that underpay their employees and stretch them thin because they don’t have the budget to hire enough of them.
Transparency should be the priority here. Not low administrative costs.
#OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS#AS SOMEONE WHO’S WORKED IN A NONPROFIT THAT HAD LIKE THREE PEOPLE AT HEAD OFFICE#AND AT NONPROFITS WITH A STRONG AND LARGE TEAM OF SUPPORT STAFF#IT MATTERS#IT FUCKING MATTERS
THIS.
Also? Especially in really BIG catastrophes, in the IMMEDIATE aftermath?
You want the charities that can MOBILIZE FAST. You CANNOT DO THAT if you are pinching every penny and working to the minimal staffing. You just can’t.
Transparency is important. And a charity should be able to EXPLAIN why each of the dollars they spent is spent the way it is, and it should be a solid reason.
And no, this is not just a factor of Money Is Evil. Even if we weren’t in a monetary-reward situation, value of effort, time and training still exists, as does value of goods, and it would simply turn to a different metric.
Considering all the damage done by Harvey and BEING done by Irma and Jose, this seems like a good time to reblog this.
A couple of fun facts from me, who just came from an academic conference about fundraising!
On average, for every dollar you spend on a gift officer, they return five dollars in donations.
If the head of a not for profit is earning six figures, it’s because they could be earning seven or even eight in the private sector. It is almost assured, as well, that anyone running a not for profit is probably heavily involved in fundraising, meaning if they’re making $200K per year, they’re pulling in a million in donations (or they are very quickly fired).
To a point, the larger the support staff for a fundraiser, the more money per year they are able to solicit in donations.
I work for a not for profit. I earn roughly $55K per years plus benefits. This is barely enough, in Chicago, to sustain myself as a single adult. I have yet to encounter another NFP employer, anywhere, which pays better for my job than where I am now, adjusting for cost of living. I do not get performance, holiday, or innovation bonuses.
If an organization tells you that they have zero overhead, they are either:
1. Lying.
2. A scam.
3. Cooking the books to make it look like it, either by operating two organizations simultaneously – one of which is 0% overhead, the other of which is 100% overhead – or using private donors to fund administrative costs (meaning YOUR money goes to program expenses – but someone else is laying out a couple of million, none of which goes to program expenses.)
do men have resting bitch faces as well or do they not have negative characteristics ascribed to them for putting on a neutral rather than a deliriously happy facial expression
Yes, Black men in majority white spaces do. If I don’t smile every single second of the day my coworkers become in intimidated and start asking me what’s wrong, telling me to smile, make jokes about how I’m trying to be a thug/act hard, why am I angry, etc. And it’s not just white men at my job God FORBID I my large Black ass makes a white girl feel threaten because I’m sitting down with a neutral expression.
I’m not trying to take this post away from women and make it about Black men but I want to point out that wether it’s patriarchy or white supremacy; those who feel as if they have power over you HATE to see you not smile. They are so used to people like you smiling to gain their approval that when you don’t there’s a cognitive dissonance that makes them extremely uncomfortable.
That’s why “angry Black women” is a thing. They have to put on a smile for everyone (yes even feminist white women) or we all get uncomfortable.
I just want every teenage girl who’s just starting to have sex to know that it’s completely okay to NOT want to replicate porn, to NOT want to do anal, to NOT want to have threesomes and to NOT want to do bdsm. You’re not “boring” or “a prude” or “a kink shamer”, nor do you need to be fixed. You’re not wrong for not wanting to have wild unsafe or degrading sex. Your boundaries are completely okay and there’s nothing wrong with being “vanilla”.
Also it’s okay to not want to give blowjobs and to not want to have penetrative sex. It’s okay to back out of having sex that you previously agreed to. You do not owe anyone any kind of sex for any kind of reason, and if they cared about you they wouldn’t pressure you. It’s okay to not be ready for sex. (And it’s okay to never have sex!)
It’s okay to back out of having sex that you previously agreed to .
You do not owe anyone any kind of sex for any kind of reason .
Guys.
It’s okay to say no to dating a guy even though he’s nice. It’s okay to say no to sex with a guy even though he’s your boyfriend. It’s okay to say no to dating or sex with a guy even though he bought you something/stood up for you/shared his notes/anything really. If it’s okay if you only want to try certain kinds of sexual things, and you are allowed to say and enforce that those are all you’re interested in and the only things you’re going to do. It’s okay to break up with a dude who’s trying to pressure you in any way. It’s okay to report his behaviour to teachers or counselors or authorities or your parents/parental figures. And if an adult tries to downplay aggressive behaviour from a dude, it’s okay for you to report it to someone else until you’re taken seriously.
It’s also ok to do this if you’re an adult.
It’s also OK to do this if you are a guy.
I hate that social media has commodified performative grief and outrage to the point that every fucking person thinks that every tragedy that happens needs to be addressed by them, personally. I hate that there’s an expectation that everyone make some grand statement and that if you don’t do it, you must be heartless or hate the victims. We’re not all celebrities or politicians. Not every voice needs to be heard at all times. The world probably doesn’t NEED anyone’s take if it doesn’t contain new information. Processing things silently isn’t bad and it doesn’t make anyone a bad person and I honestly much prefer it to a lot of the self-serving bullshit you see when something awful happens in the world.
I fall into that trap. Most people do. It’s shit and it produces a lot of shit sentiment. “WHY AREN’T PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS?!” is my least favorite sentence in the world right now. Most people, when it comes to tragedy, have nothing to say. Most uninvolved people, in these circumstances, should say less.
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