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The anti-charity people get around their absolutism by inventing "mutual aid", which is what they call charity when they like it.

(similar thing in education involved deciding "equality" was bad, so they invented "equity", which is the same thing except they like it.)

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Mutual aid is decentralized charity, the aid comes from the community instead of a NGO.

I don't think normal people define "charity" only to mean "charity that doesn't work" though. Giving to a local food bank is charity to most people. And, like, GiveWell/GiveDirectly are NGOs that are actually effective.

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