• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m just instinctively averse to corporate bullshit because corporations don’t do anything unless it serves them in some way.

    Why do I have to round up to a dollar? I just dropped 159$ shopping at your store, you round up and give some of your profits to charity, don’t guilt trip me with this nonsense as you rape me with fake sales and shrinkflation.

    I’ll donate to charities that I want and I’ll give more than a miesely dollar.

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      6 months ago

      i totally get that, and your instincts are noble, which is probably why this misconception is so pervasive. i too was in your position once, but yeah, no harm is done by donating at checkout.

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        6 months ago

        I disagree. Charities should not have to exist if the government was responsible and funded services in the public interest. Charities have to spend a non-trivial amount of money on fundraising itself and sustaining their own management. Hunger, medical research, veteran care, homelessness. All these things could be alleviated through government funding.

        Are Nonprofits Getting in the Way of Social Change?

        The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

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          sure, I agree completely, but we just aren’t in a world that can do that, so we are stuck at this point.

          if you want to blame someone, blame the people still eating up the misinformation, delusions and propaganda pumped out by the various Libertarian/neo-liberal think-tanks and fantasy book authors

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            6 months ago

            I can’t blame conservatives and neoliberals for being victims of misinformation. I can only hope to educate them, and show them that money / labour can be used to ease societal burdens instead of being hoarded by fat cats who have captured the government.

            How can I blame someone for not being class conscious when they don’t even know what that is?