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The irony is that most positions to help the poor make you poor. Social work pays terribly. Nonprofit salaries are low. They entice young people into volunteer positions when theyβre drowning in student debt and have barely any personal savings. You really make a sacrifice.
This is basically the central concern of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs theory, though he focused more on the other side of the issue, how the most meaningless jobs tend to be the most compensated.
Help the poor -> Help I'm poor
Which is why I push back when people complain about employees at non-profits making a decent salary.
If you can make 10% more working at a for-profit company, then you are asking people working at non-profit companies to donate 10% of their salary. So unless the person complaining is donating 10% of their salary to charity, they don't really have anything to complain about.... π
Working as intended
The grifters who only act like they help the poor, tho. They're rich AF.