• @blackbelt352
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    263 days ago

    After a certain point being aware just means you keep reaching the lucky 10,000 instead of actually doing anything to address the problems.

    It’s like all the charities that are doing all kinds of stuff to raise awareness for whatever problem they’re championing, but hardly ever make a dent in furthering the goal of actually fixing what they’re championing.

    Yes keeping people informed about mental health problems is important but the solution to the rise of the mental health crisis is “fix what’s causing so much unnecessary stress on people.” But instead we get more money dedicated for researching medicines and therapy to fix what shouldn’t have been broken in the first place.

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      2 days ago

      “Raisin awareness” more often than not helps that Charity in terms of Marketing, which in turn leads to more funding.

      (Finding a human interest subject, linking your company to it and taking it all the the Press as a nice pre-package piece of “today’s news” is quite a common PR strategy)

      When it comes to modern Charities, generally fixing what they’re championing is at best a secondary priority to their own self-preservation as an entity.