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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (13 children)

You don't understand, they're making money so much faster than they can reasonably give away.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    making money

    I think you mean stealing money.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not true.

    They’re also using imaginary methods to make money grow out of other money.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Then they're not really trying. I get what @Hobo@Lemmy.World is saying, but I find it hard to believe. If their bar for "respectable charities" leads to them not being able to find charities, then just lower the bar. Or just give money to people.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yep, pay for everyone's university for a year, pay everyone's healthcare debt, do something.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This is kind of the actual problem though. It's hard to actually have effective charities. Even some of the most ethical, and well run charities, end up with surplus funds (Dolly Parton's charity for example). The government is setup to spend that much money helping people though. But paying taxes is somehow bad and wrong. I don't know if I had a real point other than maybe we should actually tax these rich folks so they can achieve their dream of giving away at least half their wealth.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    There was a post a while ago where a German person posted that they were confused by the US nonprofit systems, they basically said I pay my taxes and the government makes sure it's spent feeding the needy and foreign aid and all that. Why should I go through the trouble of researching all these charities trying to find a good one to donate to.

    Not that Germany doesn't have non profits, but they really should be for special interest type cases where you explicitly want to send money to a cause, not general global well being.

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