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Do you know what happens when Paul McCartney gives to charity and charity leaks his name? He cancels the donation. That's how you do good deeds when you genuinely want to help people and not pull a little PR on a side.

If this guy wanted to help his under-40K employees, there were multiple ways to do it (a) quietly (b) without pissing off other people who worked for him. I don't know if it's a poorly throught through PR stunt or if it's just a vanity / mid-life crisis thing, but it sure wasn't executed smartly.

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>I don't know if it's a poorly throught through PR stunt or if it's just a vanity / mid-life crisis thing, but it sure wasn't executed smartly.

Or he just wanted to do what he thought was the right thing. I hire day laborers through a local service on a regular basis. I pay the workers directly and I am supposed to give them $9 an hour. I typically pay them $15-$20hr an hour at the end of the day.

If your goal is to create larger societal change, however, you NEED to publicize the move.

He may or may not be right, but if shaking things up even outside his company was the intended effect, mission accomplished.

This is ridiculous. Any change in pay structure is going to cause someone to get the short end. Who doesn't want more money? Who doesn't have getting less?

One thing's for certain: there's a whole bunch of people who are butthurt about lower class people getting more money. Wonder what that reflects about them...

> Who doesn't want more money? Who doesn't have getting less?

The answer to both questions in this case was:

   the CEO

The money came from his paycheck.

The short end? That sounds like the kind of right-to-profits thinking that is working on getting us the TPP's ISDS.

> He cancels the donation.

Isn't that literally un-doing a good deed?

Presumably he would then give the money to some other charity.

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