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Man Accidentally Donated $15,000 to Charity; Takes it Back

#poverty#livebetter#charity#bangladesh#wakanda
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0:00 The Villages that I went to they have plenty of food but you take a shower in a bucket some say that's even healthier for you I don't know I don't know if people say that I just made it [Music] all right so there's this guy in San Francisco his name is Michael he uh has his neighbor that tells him about this charity that he's uh working with and it's a charity for Bangladeshi kids that are very poor and they need food and clothing sounds fake it's a very real charity but so I don't believe them I just saw an article that the Bangladesh is going to be the number one richest South East Asian country I don't think there's a lower class still no it's like a wakanda

0:52 looking wakanda so uh he decides to donate 150 bucks to the charity and then he types it in and then he receives a thank you email for his donation of fifteen thousand forty one dollars oh no ████ and he's like what what the hell and he realizes that when he was typing in his credit card info that his cursor was still on the dollar amount so that's why it added like a 41 on it so he basically emails GoFundMe and he tells him the situation he's like hey I did not mean to send this much money but I'm not that good again yeah right has that conversation with him GoFundMe says okay that's fine it happens all the time uh it'll just take like a week though for you to get your money back they're gonna refund him the whole amount during that week longest week of his ████ life longest week of his life he

1:43 starts receiving hundreds of thank you notes and videos from Bangladeshi kids including videos of them holding signs with his name saying thank you Michael all these like his thing shows up on the top of the GoFundMe chart as a guy that that uh donated 15 000. so it's like it's very public so they're probably like oh my God we could feed the whole village for five years they're so excited like we're not gonna be hungry anymore and he's just receiving our boys just sweating huh sweating and he's get every day do you think that he feels like he's like stealing a little bit of their Joy because he knows that he's in the middle of a refund process yeah he's watching these videos and he's like oh I can't enjoy it though but the whole time he's probably tell him stuff he's like dude it's fine it's gonna be fine it's gonna be it's gonna be the wakanda of of

2:33 the area it's the wakanda the area I heard they already have enough money yeah it's gonna be fine like they're gonna be fine this article me they are the fastest rising ████ GDP in southeast and you know what happens when the when the the GDP goes up right the poorer people get lifted up like that poverty gets abolished yeah the Gap keeps getting big it's like during covet right huh 200 billion dollars right went all the way down it went all the way down so it almost was like it came out of the ground that's right yeah because it went it would trickle up economic trickled up yeah so here's a picture of like that's the GoFundMe those are the kids holding signs of his name so he's getting the ton of these all the time what's he gonna do something ████ it just keep it I 15 Jesus that's

3:23 something so he does not keep the donation in he gets his refund and then he decides to change his uh donation to 1500. and he tells the organizer like hey this is what happened he should have told him already I mean he waits for the refund no maybe he did though I don't know but I'm such a coward I would have changed my ████ name that's why I was thinking he was gonna say and then so he changed his name's address new identity he moved on he's talking to the organizer and he's like yeah it's it's my donation was meant to be much lower was an accident the organization is super cool about it and they're like oh no trust us like 1500 still goes a really long way so thank you so much they're really cool about it like there's no shame they don't like put him out they don't like expose him or nothing they're just super cool so uh this guy Michael ends up like telling his story about what he did on Reddit

4:13 and then the Reddit blows up and they all start donating and the charity made's like 120k wow that's cool wow I thought they were gonna go bad on him or something me too not even the nature of Reddit ████ penis is going in his mouth I know what that feels like that's the bad ending yeah yeah so the charity ended up making even more money and then Michael comes back and goes can I get like at least a thousand back scratch I started it yeah yeah exactly can I be marketing director can I get paid for it for 1500 a month I was expecting it to be a really sad ending so I'm glad it was happy yeah this is a crazy story actually so is that more money than they ever need no one needs ever done anything he's out they're trying to say I think so I think they halted old donations what was it for they hungry oh there's

5:04 no yeah they're hungry because maybe they should just now build farms 150 Grand 150 Grand how much come on dude you could live for years exactly yeah so okay just spaghetti and marinara yeah all you need is enough food to last you until the the harvest season and then when you start growing okay then you start making your own food [Laughter] homies know I don't know if you could

5:54 grow beans but have you ever thought about beans or like because rice is actually very hard to grow man yeah it's not easy and and Bangladesh is a small country not a lot of rice space what's something that they could grow beans okay what else a lot of protein yeah peas peas very small have you seen a pea yeah does it take much space Have you seen the pee yeah do you need a lot of it that's funny do you know um what a high poverty rate is or a low power rate do you have an idea of like the scale no so the poverty rate now in Bangladesh is 18.7 percent oh wow yeah then that's a good clap go ahead because it's low no hold on I'll tell you yeah you want to Applause clap first go ahead I thought it was like low number but it doesn't sound that low

6:45 when you think about it 18 of the population that sounds pretty low actually poverty though poverty and you have you have to Define poverty because per country it's different lower than 50. poverty in Bangladesh is probably different than poverty in the U.S yeah poverty out there is like you live in the tent because I feel like some places like 50 Maybe well um I think that it says the poverty rate in America last recorded was like 11 yeah but American poverty you still got a stove and a refrigerator and a bathroom and an Xbox they're living bro they get to break all the laws yeah you live better than the Pharaohs you live better than the Kings that's true yeah yeah but you got AC you got ████ AC you've got the internet on your ████ phone it is it is not anything you wanted from REI just walk in taking walk out when I was doing Trolling Videos I had a homeless

7:36 guy who had a phone and he was like oh yeah I've seen you before on YouTube and I'm like how do you watching me on YouTube and he's like um so that that percentage is actually lower than it was the year before so it's good that's what's popping dude that's cool it's cool but like what point five percent yeah something like that it's not it but it is you you are right they are like uh they the country as a whole is doing better you know one of the things that like I also hear like not only I experienced but I hear from so many people too that travel to like like southeast Asia or whatever right man you meet some of the happiest people like yeah they'll be like laughing and ████ they only got like three teeth living in a shack and every day it's like I'm like

8:26 dang dude you literally look stress-free but in my head I'm thinking oh poor you you know like yeah like you live in a shack and this and that but then like their Vibes just like how much they play and like just when you're eating and and you just see them around the streets and stuff I'm like I think you live better than me yeah why don't it that's why I donations you're chilling dude that's the facade of like yeah oh I have a house they should be donating to us I wish they did I need the help that'd be nice dude that'd be sick then I get a new pair of shoes baby because like we have depression over here but the irony is never seen how much sheet metal costs here we're in our cars going to work right and then we go to like office we have a nice house and ████ and it's like a hamster wheel every day and then for them like they might not have the same stuff but they're not complaining

9:17 they're not like it's just a different world I still think I would want something in between are you sure yeah you don't know that dude do they even dollar cost average over there I think yeah what's their DC I know it is funny that in the first world like we have created a lot more problems to solve so it is but in the third world they don't have anxiety they have to hunt for food every single day um do you think they have social anxiety they don't know if they're gonna eat tonight but they probably don't have anxiety like we do yeah anxiety is tough dude right sometimes I can't go to sleep and I gotta watch YouTube all night to fall asleep or HBO Max or Hulu The Villages that I went to they have plenty of food but you take a shower in a bucket so some say that's even healthier for you I don't know I don't know if then people

10:08 say that no they'll just be like chicken and pigs everywhere and then like it'll be dinner time and we're like what are we having big and I'm like they just feel I just got one of the pigs there baby that's organic baby that's ████ free range it was bomb dude it was so good my family in the Philippines lives and they're not super happy all the time well you know what one of the things because they're Filipinos but isn't that a product of you knowing them and not just walking by them on a street like Joe did exactly so he could judge an entire situation and just go there much happier but also but you know a little bit more yes that's interesting but also though too like they don't have to worry about getting their food from factory farms and how miserable those animals are you know like oh yeah we

10:58 have the luxury of that we're eating death on like a regular basis and it's just like not good for us at all no because those animals had had anxiety when they were getting killed and then we put that in our box and that's all we get you would never think double anxiety you would never think that the chicken that you personally raised in your own yard for months and we have less guilt when you kill it exactly unlike ours when we eat these giant chickens that are all big and like stuffed juicy yeah and then and they're living in these tiny little coops and we hate ourselves and each other for eating these guys I don't I mean we're pieces of ████ for that yeah but it does taste good to make me happy when it's fried but those are the problems that they don't have to worry about that we have to worry about well you're talking to the country that made jelly be my friend

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