Many thanks for sharing your thoughts, “ falsehood in many of these acts of kindness" this is sadly true of some people, and truly unfortunate. I had not heard the story about the garbage bag on the beach, but I know of many people exploiting others with staged acts of “kindness”, such as filming themselves giving money to homeless people just for photo opportunities.
My daughter was homeless for a while, I helped as much as possible from here, she is in the UK. I went into considerable debt trying to pay for accommodations and such. She shared a story of someone on TikTok who filmed themselves and locations of giving a couple of pounds ($$) and sharing location, there were bad people that went and found some of the homeless people that were filmed, and beat them up.
I believe we all have to account for our actions, one way or another, and what goes around, really does come around. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.