• mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    People in poverty should not have an existence dependent on the whims of charitable donations.

    We have welfare states exactly for this reason.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Even better: ask your customers to round up their amounts to the nearest dollar so you can donate those proceeds to a charity of your choosing, while the customer thinks you’re doing a Good Thing.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        1 month ago

        That or Squid is actually a time travelling inter-dimensional being that is spending their time here for a few thousand years because they got bored with eternal immortality.

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    If society truly valued what charities do, they wouldn’t need a special economic non-profit status. They exist to permit governments and corporations to abdicate their obligation to provide necessary elements of the society they exist within.

    Billionaire individuals and organisational charities are polar extremes of the same policy failure. Neither should exist, and when they do, societies tolerance of them must be brief.