brainstatic:

Who is Chris Arnade and why does he always act like the only person on twitter who has ever met a poor person. 

He’s a guy who (by his own telling) worked on Wall Street for 20 years, took up photography as a hobby, started talking to poor people because he was taking pictures of them, and suddenly had this sophomoric moral revelation that Actually, Numbers Are Bad and Inhuman, While Individual Narratives Are Authentic And Good.  He quit his Wall Street job and now talks to / photographs poor people full time while sneering at everyone who dirties their hands with actual policy (which inevitably involves the dread Numbers, since “personally befriend everyone affected” does not scale up to millions of people).  One day he is going to learn about the concept of “voluntourism” and his mind is going to get blown, again

I am being mean here but the guy really pisses me off