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PhDhawk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:12 pm What about at chain restaurants? Now they all want you to round up to the nearest dollar to donate to charity. Which I think is great and I almost always do.

But...shouldn't these multi-million dollar chains at the very least match our donations? I mean, it's not enough I just spent $24.35 on THEIR food, now, the multi-million dollar corporation is gonna guilt me into donated the $.65 to a charity THEY picked, in a donation that's probably in THEIR name, and they don't donate anything.

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:12 pm What about at chain restaurants? Now they all want you to round up to the nearest dollar to donate to charity. Which I think is great and I almost always do.

But...shouldn't these multi-million dollar chains at the very least match our donations? I mean, it's not enough I just spent $24.35 on THEIR food, now, the multi-million dollar corporation is gonna guilt me into donated the $.65 to a charity THEY picked, in a donation that's probably in THEIR name, and they don't donate anything.

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:33 pm

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:12 pm What about at chain restaurants? Now they all want you to round up to the nearest dollar to donate to charity. Which I think is great and I almost always do.

But...shouldn't these multi-million dollar chains at the very least match our donations? I mean, it's not enough I just spent $24.35 on THEIR food, now, the multi-million dollar corporation is gonna guilt me into donated the $.65 to a charity THEY picked, in a donation that's probably in THEIR name, and they don't donate anything.

And claim charitable donations on their taxes.

ousdahl wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 7:27 am

Mjl wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:12 pm

ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 10:40 pm No, let’s keep that step going, cuz the only point to take away from that is one about greed.

I think the hoarding of wealth and avoiding of taxes affects us all.

Where you going with “no effort?” You mean like a freeloader? Or a vegetable? Or an inheritance? Orrr? I’m honestly not sure.

And hell fucking yes effort should be rewarded. That’s why I think anyone willing and able to put forth the effort full time should be rewarded with a decent standard of living. But Im not sure that’s where you were going with that one either.

Wealth is a motivator for creating stuff that people truly want, that's one reason capitalism works and communism does not. If you want to call that greed, fine, but it helps everyone.

I'm with you on the tax avoidance - I'm all for raising the rate on long term capital gains. Even though that money has already been taxed, I'm with you in that making money just by having money should be taxed at the same rate as making money by working for it.

I'm very, very much with you on the inheritance thing. The raising of the threshold for the estate tax in the Trump tax cuts was, to me, in the top three of the the worst things that administration did. Again, it's reducing taxes for people who didn't actually work for their money.

As for the minimum wage aspect, I will kick that back to you. Should we have a $100 per hour minimum wage? If not, why not?

$100 is quite a jump. But I think wages should at least be worthwhile for a worker, and keep up with other metrics of economic growth.

And wealth is a motivator, sure, but is it thee motivator for creating stuff people truly want? Heck, people truly want a for cancer, but there’s more money to be made in treatment, so why not make a career out of that?

And if capitalism isn’t greedy, then what is it? Please read through this and then see if you can still say capitalism isn’t broken: