person or professional with a skill or skills that donates their time, effort, skills but not loads of money to a cause for the betterment of not only society but the world in general
Noun: Seemingly philanthropic pursuits for the purpose of being a shill for oneself or for one's organization.
The University was engaged in shillanthropy to make alumni believe that it was doing good for students and for the community, when in fact it was just looking for additional donations to misappropriate and the opportunity to shill for the school.
Politicians often engage in shillanthropy to make there constituents believe they are good people, when in fact they are terrible people who are taking advantage of the underprivileged in hope of gaining public appeal and are self-shilling.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”