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PoisedWriter · 04/03/2025 09:54

I am sick to back teeth of seeing cancer ads, " Together we can find a cure", seriously!! How stupid are folk, this alleged charity has been asking for donations ( and receiving) since 1971, 53 years!! Not a 1 cure in 53 years, the CEO of the charity buys a brand new motor every 12 months, its all about the donations.!! Why are folk still funding this, it's the world's richest charity with 0 ZERO results. There will never be a cure, ever. Stop funding scrounging alleged charities. Wake up people!!

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Nooa · 04/03/2025 10:09

You have a reasonable point on how much some charities pay some staff (depends on the charity though).
But the rest is a bit wacky. Nobody has found a 'cure' for all cancers yet, it's true. So should we not try?

I think the worse ones are the animal ones... "Rufus just wants to be loved this Christmas"... No. Rufus does not even know what love is. Rufus is a donkey. Why can't they just say, "Rufus just wants a dry stable and some well fermented silage this year, and doesn't give two shits about Christmas"?

LittleRedRidingHoody · 04/03/2025 10:00

Hmmmm I think if we take that mindset though we never find a cure for anything.

Charity CEOs need to be well paid. No one is going to spend decades learning to run companies well to then live on a low salary. Not sure how much the one you're referring to is, but most CEOs bring far more to the charity then they take, and are massively unpaid compared to similar private companies (obviously this is fair enough, but continuing to flame them is not on IMO, and is why I'd never take a pay cut into the charity sector even if I wanted to!)

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