Discussion for article #230646
I’m not sure why the headline on this article seems to be throwing off so much attitude. It’s a fairly positive story about donors who are willing to part with not only their money but also their time to better understand who it is they’re giving to. That seems like a good thing, no?
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If true, this may be the sort of case in which it is merely better to just do the good deed without advance notice of it, and can be easily ridiculed.
It sounds like an subplot of "My Man Godfrey.
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TPM:
Some well-off New York City residents have paid $100 each for the honor of eating a candlelit holiday dinner with homeless people at a church.
Why do I get the feeling that the rich people there were just looking to find a forgotten man for their scavenger hunt?
Edit to Add: Damn you, normankelley! Ah well, that’ll teach me to read the comments before adding my own. (Or to at least type faster.)
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I’d be more impressed if such rich folk would pay $100 to eat a holiday meal with the homeless at the local Salvation Army cafeteria, sans piano and Waldorf-Astoria provided food!
Note to the “well-off”: You can dine with such folk nearly every day of the week; don’t wait for a special, catered occasion!
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I guess if you work hard enough at it you can find something negative to say, or ridicule anything.
I just don’t get it.
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I hate the headline but must say that I like the story. Few comments here but many are critical of the “rich New Yorkers”. Any act of generosity that help the less well off is good in my book. And if it’s in an elegant setting with good food and music all the better.
My message to the rich New Yorkers asking to be patted on the back for eating with homeless people is just do it. Don’t publicize it. If I hear about it I will respect you, as it is who gives a damn what your marketing departments want me to think,.
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Charity is all well and good, but if the motivation behind this project was for donors to get to know the people for whom they were donating funds, why the hell was it a lavish meal provided by the Palace and the Waldorf? Is that the kind of environment that is likely to produce tough talk about life on the street? That’s like suggesting you can learn about homeless shelters by jetting a dozen shelter “residents” off to a Caribbean resort for a weekend conference.
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are these rich folks going to aide them to get back on their feet? is this the purpose of the dinner? I bet not one republican attended
Always the 50/50 raffle. What strikes me about the story is the simple facts and how they are so mundane and ordinary that all other aspects but what is kinda fd up is defended, mocked or analyzed but the facts are sort of unnoticed. If any New Yorker wanted to eat a nice thanksgiving dinner as described prepared by chefs comprable to those at the Waldorf Historia and served in a large well maintained and furnished large private hall not open to the general public have the event set up and cleaned up and waited and live music provided, how much would each person have left from their hundred bucks to donate?
No one ever confused me for a wealthy Philanthropist but I at least annually go out with my wife and rack up a $200 bill at pretty run of the mill, open to the public restaurants NOT in Manhattan where no one played music for us or acted like my $200 was something besides what I owed them for what I ate- because I had to pay tax and tip on top of that!