Most of you on Twitter have seen this kind of stupid clickbait question: “If you were to be given XYZillion dollars tomorrow, what would you do with it?”
Stupid, and clicky baity, but it has made me think.
Most of us (human beings) would likely give a bunch of that money
away. But I don’t have to be given XYZ dollars to
wonder what happens to the ABC dollars I donate to about 30 “charities” every
year. What makes me think about this issue
is the fact that I wonder how much of the money (that I just gave them) they
spend on asking me for more money. All
of it, it looks like to me, for some of the charities.
So, most likely, wealthy people hire law firms
to disburse their charitable donations.
They (the wealthy people) remain anonymous so as to avoid the above
problem. I’m beginning to think that I should
have a lawyer send in my little bitty amounts of money with the legal notation:
“This
is what you’re getting from me. If you
ask for more, you will never see another penny.
Thank you for your attention to this legal declaration.”
Signed:
DEWEY,
CHEATEM, and HOWE, attorneys at law. (Apologies
to Click and Clack, oh, how I miss those guys).
If
I trusted the people that open letters, I’d just anonymously send cash… And
thereby (as a lawyer would say) actually be able to send my money to the people
that MIGHT be in the business of spending it on the issues that I want to
promote, without the overhead of a law firm, or the risk of them spending all those funds on asking me for more money.
I wouldn’t be “wasting” part of my funds on lawyers…
But
that world is long gone if it ever existed.
You, who know me, can quote my oft stated comment: “Human nature ain’t
all it’s cracked up to be.”
