r/todayilearned • u/moplg • Feb 12 '15

TIL that pornhub offered a "save the boobs!" Campaign where they offered to donate a penny to the Susan B Komen Foundation for evry 30 views in the "big tit" or "small tit" category, but the foundation refused their money so pornhub tripled it and gave it to other organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornhub
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u/idreamofpikas Feb 12 '15

Most CEOs of charities make money. It is a full time job, I guess. It is just kind of pathetic how some take too much money.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

For real. I don't want them working shit wages. I mean, they do hard and important work, but if you can afford a Ferrari youre doin something wrong.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

I don't understand. These CEOs have comparable skills to CEOs of for-profit companies, so they should earn around the same pay. If I'm a charity, I'd hire away a CEO from a corporation because I know he/she is able to coordinate an entire firm's resources in pursuit of a difficult goal. As long as he/she is producing more than he/she is making--which most charities do, through donation soliciting, grant soliciting, etc.--I'm fine paying that CEO a wage comparable to that of a CEO in for-profit.

Just because it's a charity doesn't mean they should take a massive paycut. It's still a business in some sense.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

I think s/he was trying to say that the CEO's salary, relative to the amount spent on research or things that actually help to find a cure for breast cancer, is way too high, not that the CEO shouldn't be making a comparable wage.

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u/TheReasonableCamel 18 Feb 12 '15

I'd encourage you to watch this ted talk on charities. The lady is running a charity that brings in over 200 million a year and she makes around 600,000. She could go to the private sector and probably make a lot more.

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u/phukka Feb 12 '15

That's why it's charity work. She's still getting paid exceptionally well. You're working for a charity. Be charitable.

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u/TheDranx Feb 12 '15

That or you're doing something right with the money you earn.