I want to phrase my disagreement with your post as courteously as possible. It happens that I served many years on the Board of a major charity that has reached out to the homeless and other folk in difficulty for many decades. You would likely recognize its name if you have lived long In Toronto. From my experience, I think that yours is an overly negative view of the people and organizations who do that kind of work. The charity with which I was involved is primarily funded by donations and careful management of a endowment almost entirely garnered from bequests, which are, of course, another form of donation.Any government funding is a small percentage of the whole. Executives are paid less than the managers of commercial concerns of similar size. Employees, for the most part, are genuinely dedicated to the people they serve. These are not saints, of course, and they experience many failures in their sometimes very difficult work. They demonstrate the failings common to other folk. But as I look back, I hold most of the people with whom I worked in high honour. This is not to make any statements about the finances of the We Charity, about which I know almost nothing, just a description of what I experienced in the “industry.”
A good thing about your post is that it reminds me to get off my financial butt and make another donation to the charity I have described. I know, once again from direct experience, that in hard times, the needs go up and the donations go down. I need to put my money where my mouth has been.
Edit, since writing this post, I saw the news about “We“ folding. Very sad, in my view.