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There's a term for this very specific feeling of ickyness: the Orphan Crushing Machine. It comes from this tweet, https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1309325764739858432, which reads:

> "Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used."

You're 100% right. It's nice that MrBeast paid for those simple and cheap surgeries to restore people's vision, and it's abhorrent that it required someone with money to decide to take that step for the problem to be solved.



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