Normally you'd donate to help the ones that cannot help themselves. But “normal” is so yesterday. Nowadays, people donate for other reasons: to build-up image, to clean their stained image or to feel a cleaner conscience.
The charity organizations are hidden political and campaigning instruments. Donations have become a PR tool when it comes to image or an accounting one, when people need to laundry funds or make them disappear. Even when donations happen out of the need to do good, something is wrong.
Let's say you would donate several cents to an organization. Inevitably the organization would spend the money in some other way than you would expect; the one in need doesn't receive much of what you've donated.
But if you decide to give one dollar to a beggar, one would believe the money go directly into helping him. In reality your dollar is aiding him sustain the very vice that got him in that situation. Or aids him in raising the 100 dollars needed for the gun with which he'll rob a bank or the nearest grocery store.
If you wanted to donate money and are disappointed of the above described reality, then donate your money to me. Pay me for having enlightened you. Or buy my incredibly expensive bracelet to show everybody that you love to show off your money. And it also looks great, it's with diamonds!
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Make Hypocrisy History, a charity for nihilistic greedheads who like being seen as superior. Instead of giving money to charities which will undoubtedly misallocate it or to beggars who will use it to buy drugs or guns, €100 will buy you a plastic bracelet imprinted with a simple diamond logo, whose design says "my bracelet costs as much as your iPod". All proceeds go to the designer of the campaign, who will use them as he sees fit.
They run a free weekly B3TA email reporting on the coolest stuff on the net.
"Charities are shit and waste your money", opines Tavi. "So why not give it to me - and I'll waste it. What do you care?"
Ordinary rubber, imprinted with the form of a diamond. A must for cool people and for those with money, a manifest saying “my bracelet costs just as much as your iPod”. If you want it to cost more, donate the rest of the money using the donation button.
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Spread the word and support the idea. Right click and save any of the images below to get one of the banners or click the peel to get the code for the peel ad. This doesn't mean I'll post a link pointing to you. I'm no hypocrite. Here's a demo of the peel.
I didn't need support, I'm a full time art director and I'm also part of a webshop.
I'm going to spend them as I please. I won't show off, I will get on with my life as usual.
On the contrary. I receive money because I sustain a great idea, I have a cause.
Yes, if this would help me.
I believe in recession just us much as I believed in the mad cow's disease or in the chicken flu.
As God does bring money to others, I don't see any reason not to. I'll document on this.
What great joy could 1 spent dollar bring you?
Do you still believe in those?
Why would you care? Yo'd better be afraid about me giving it away to some church.
Only if you had the same idea.
Did I say you could buy me with donations?
You may put my banner on your site. I won't directly associate myself with other "organizations", I hate the term.
I don't know how to put it more elegantly, but I piss on this kind of thieves.
I've explained my reasons above. If you persevere with this question, I do invite you to redirect your donation to them.