I'd like your opinion about this

[99th_Monkey]

11. "Poverty Pimp" <-- what poor people call "do-gooders" trying to help them

I learned this years ago, when I became Dignity Villages only paid "poverty '
pimp" during the village's early organizing years, when it was just getting
started and needed to get incorporated as a 501c3, etc. so I was hired by
a local philanthropist to "get 'er done".

I may have been a poverty pimp, but I was THEIR poverty pimp, working
to insure that their self-governance model became reality. They are still
rockin' and rollin' 13 years later. We often joked about this together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity_Village

Granted labor organizing is a bit different than organizing homeless people,
but still ... I guess my point is that there are some legitimate reasons to
wonder about people getting paid to "do good"; but given the situation we
are stuck in today, there is no good way around it imho.