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This is a good take but it disregards the realities of the financial recipients being unable to account for funds spent. I agree there are special circumstances but we need to have visibility to those realities as benefactors. Otherwise how can we allocate funds democratically.
As a native English speaker I fully agree that your intuition makes sense and I’ve also always hated this phrase because it does sound backwards.