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loving the EA forum on how the problem with spending the charity money on a castle was the public relations

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loving the EA forum on how the problem with spending the charity money on a castle was the public relations

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David GerardMA to

SneerClubEnglish · 2 years ago

Reflections on Wytham Abbey — EA Forum

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In April 2022, CEA (now EVF) bought Wytham Abbey (a 1480 manor near Oxford) as a conference venue. The purchase was mostly funded by Open Philanthrop…

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the context for them purchasing an extremely expensive castle is they had a lot of money (no shit)

Ohhh the hypocrisy. Wasn’t EA meant to tackle these kind of inefficiencies???
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