Episode 135 - The Hidden Dark Side of Helper's High

What is Helper’s High? And how did Goodwill use “Helper’s High” to get away with paying disabled workers 22 cents an hour in 2011?

What do moral panics, corrupt charities, and false sex-abuse accusations all have in common? They are all rooted in our fundamental human need to help each other. On this episode of The Re-Engineered You, Todd and Joe discuss all things charitable. We break down the science of why we get “high” from helping each other, and why it’s beneficial in the big picture of our species’ survival.

Then we get into our experiences with various charities, and discuss the types of high the volunteers get from the process of helping. We’ll talk about the cancer researchers that get a tiny fraction of the funding compared to “marketable cancers” like breast cancer and leukemia. And we’ll dive into the taxes of the Top 5 biggest charity organizations, and reveal the incomes of the CEOs. Which thrift store charities are secretly corrupt clothing companies? What 75-year-old law did Goodwill dig up to pay disabled workers “subminimum wages”? Tune in and find out.

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