Orphan Crushing Machine

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Campaign collects €30,000 for homeless Amsterdammer who returned lost wallet with €2,000 (nltimes.nl)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Re #3; Yeah, that's the "heart warming human interest story" part of the orphan crushing machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh, I get it. I definitely didn't mean to imply that this doesn't fit here - just that the situation isn't quite as demoralizing as many posts in this community.

He did a good thing and was handsomely rewarded for it by others. The situation in question wasn't directly related to his financial plight. I'm sure I'm over-complicating it though. I'm just less bummed out by this story than I'm used to on this sub. Sooooo ... yay?