Seen this a thousand times
- Well intentioned group gets together to help people. Achieve success. Attract well intentioned funding from corporate/orgs/gov/investors.
- Outside funding now starts making demands. At least one of the original founders starts angling for personal gain and snogging with the outside funders.
- Rest of original founders object and are systematically and summarily replaced by one means or another.
- Original group and idea now co-opted by outside funders and turned into pet project of the idle rich/well connected while assuaging any feeling of guilt about reasons the less advantaged needed help in the first place.
- Idea/project/program now completely mismanaged and ends up helping no one but the new leaders
- Lesson learned? Why bother any more?
- Result? Society goes to hell, but it's all the lazy poor people's fault!
Did I miss a step?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
