Fee-lanthropy
One of the richest couples in the world, the Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, have pledged to give away 95 per cent of their fortune to aid projects. Do you welcome the support of philanthropists or should governments do more? - bbcYou could say that philanthropy is not unlike saying an 'our father' and '10 hail marys' as penance and then going out and doing what it takes to be given the same penance for absolution another day. It is a small fee one pays to go out and screw the people for far more.
At the end of the day, viewing philanthropy as 'philanthropy' misdirects people from questioning after the justification for the existence of the filthy rich by way of getting us to thank them for giving back part of the loot.
Philanthropy serves to maintain a system that requires philanthropy as a means by which society is periodically relieved of the consequences of said system. In that, philanthropy is an investment by the rich today in the continued enslavement of the peoples of tomorrow.
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Great point - ” 'philanthropy' helps people move on from questioning…the justification for the existence of the filthy rich”. The rich people amass their wealth from the labour of those who work under them and from the consumers. In order for people like BG to become so rich, there is a wider issue about wealth distribution. If wealth were more equally distributed, do we still require philanthropy? If we need philanthropists, then society has failed in its duties!
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