I agree. I don’t think anyone here would choose anything else if given the choice. Unfortunately, the person I was discussing this with decided that blocking me was easier than actually addressing my response. If you’re going to make it personal and attack someone’s character, you should at least be willing to hear their response. I never said people in poverty need to be grateful for whatever charity they receive, nor did I say they aren’t allowed preferences or small luxuries. My post explicitly acknowledged that wanting aid to feel “less clinical” is, in fact, understandable. I’m criticizing the specific complaint that a free UNICEF school bag is objectionable because “it’s blue and visibly branded as aid”. Those are two completely different arguments. They’ve taken “I think this particular complaint is entitled”, which is literally the goal of this subreddit, and turned it into “poor people should be grateful”, because the latter is much easier to attack. Nobody is saying they shouldn’t receive the bag, or that they should be forced to “know their place” and be grateful. They can dislike the bag. I can still look at a complaint about the color and branding of a free, brand new school bag that many others would have been genuinely grateful to receive, including other parents in Gaza who may have felt differently, and call it privileged. Those positions are perfectly compatible.