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[–] stabby_cicada 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The nonprofit industrial complex is a leech. At least government agencies have some level of accountability, because if they fail to solve a problem, the voters blame the politicians, and the politicians shit downhill on the agencies. Nonprofits don't even have that minimal level of accountability. They just spend all the government money they get, write grants saying "we spent all the money you gave us doing stuff, please give us more", and get more money.

But this is what you get when both the left and right have bought into libertarian free market ideology and agree that privatizing government services is more efficient than letting the government do its goddamn job.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, charitable organizations are unfortunately corrupt.