Some have more money than they can spend in a lifetime while others are homeless.
This is the society we live in, created by capitalism that demands unsustainable growth.
This is the society we live in, created by capitalism that demands unsustainable growth.
Scarcity is the problem, not capitalism.
Attention and logistics. The cost of getting things where they need to go, the administration of an empire, frequently dwarves by orders of magnitude the cost of the materials being transported to and fro. The problem is not solved by localisation given the increased exposure to volatility that brings.
I’d say the capitalists do a better job.
Capitalism is the framework that makes all those people work together: The nun, the family guy, the corporate shark, the idealist who can buy land and create an inefficient community based on non-monetary exchange.
Capitalism also makes us globally quite rich (by virtue of allowing us to simply take the revenue we generate in our startups), which affords us the luxury of giving 63% to the state. Supposedly in exchange for the state taking care of poor people. It’s the capitalism that allows me that money.
So I get it, you pin everything bad on capitalism. It’s just that you allow CEOs to pactise with the state to remove freedoms from you. Meanwhile you forget that this unprecedented lifestyle improvement since the industrial revolution, it’s also due to capitalism.
Who are you blaming? If you're so virtuous, why don't you give away half of your money to a homeless person?
Sorry but I get really frustrated by this lazy kind of 'well why don't you do it?' response. It just feels like you're trying to convince yourself that you're right not to care (to be clear, I have no idea whether you do or not), and implying that anyone who does, and hopes for something better, is just a hypocrite.
But that is a very uncharitable framing of their philanthropy.
The whole point, is to point out that some people have enough money to uplift hundreds of thousands out of poverty. Some have greater personal wealth than the GDP of an entire country, and that those people should either:
Give up some part of their wealth for the greater good.
Never be allowed to accumulate that much personal wealth in the first place.
The common person, like myself, doesn't have that kind of money. I cannot even afford a house for myself.
And you think they don’t?
So no. And especially so for the corporations they own.