• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
              01·
              3 months ago

              Your meme specifies: In a truly free market, voluntary charity would help the poor - indeed that’s a fact.

              The poor are the product of the free market operating. The free market is what’s creating the problem in the first place.

              So you’re saying philanthropists cause cancer in children? And that’s why they donate to children’s cancer hospitals…?

              Now that’s just a straw man you’re using to derail the argument.

              His arguments countered.

              🤣

    • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
      0·
      3 months ago

      So… wtf is the problem? They’re donating. Why aren’t you happy?

      It’s another way billionaires are taking away power from the common people. They are donating money and reducing their taxes by doing so. What it effectively means is that instead of the democratically elected government deciding on what causes that money is spent on, the billionaires get to decide instead.

        • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
          0·
          3 months ago

          More like billionaires donating ‘charities’ that push a certain agenda, e.g. the NRA, instead paying taxes that can be spent on things likje public schools or libraries.

          Or they just create their own ‘charity’ that supports whatever political goals they have.

            • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
              0·
              3 months ago

              The problem is that the billionaires get to decide how the money is spent, instead of ‘we the people’. You are basically giving them control over how that tax money is used.

    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
      0·
      3 months ago

      If the state can incentivize charity to negate the effects of capitalist naked self interest, why can’t the state just… help directly?