Bingo! What started as a heartfelt way for committed “classical liberals” to devote themselves (at low pay and long hours) to a cause they believed in has now become a corrupt industry of cynical/corrupt lobbyists writing grant applications for taxpayer dollars. Salaries are high, many of the “causes” are having harmful impacts on our society (take a look at the homeless-industrial complex, and the illegal-drug industrial complex if you want two examples), and there is enormous duplication of efforts, which costs many times more to fund. “Good intentions” have become a means to fraud, waste, and abuse in many cases.
They have become vehicles to pay high salaries to accomplished/credentialed PMC and provide wage support to prospective cadres. They are part of a larger revolving door with academia, government and other sectors.
Providing, say, drinking water to children in rural Bolivia is now window-dressing for a fundamentally different mission.
Bingo! What started as a heartfelt way for committed “classical liberals” to devote themselves (at low pay and long hours) to a cause they believed in has now become a corrupt industry of cynical/corrupt lobbyists writing grant applications for taxpayer dollars. Salaries are high, many of the “causes” are having harmful impacts on our society (take a look at the homeless-industrial complex, and the illegal-drug industrial complex if you want two examples), and there is enormous duplication of efforts, which costs many times more to fund. “Good intentions” have become a means to fraud, waste, and abuse in many cases.
They have become vehicles to pay high salaries to accomplished/credentialed PMC and provide wage support to prospective cadres. They are part of a larger revolving door with academia, government and other sectors.
Providing, say, drinking water to children in rural Bolivia is now window-dressing for a fundamentally different mission.