"This is a generation that sees everything they do wrong as someone else's fault but everything that happens to other people as a matter of personal responsibility. Reading a tale of hard working, well intentioned people getting reamed by a corrupt system even as they work themselves to literal death might be an eye-opener. Sure, it will sail right over the heads of some of them. I feel, though, that the understanding that the world is not fair, life is hard, and getting by is often a tremendous struggle is a necessary precondition to having meaningful political attitudes. The idea that everything that happens to individuals in our society is their own fault poisons our entire culture, from our politics to our communities. People like Sinclair saw through this over a century ago, but somewhere along the way we chose to forget."
Ed, at Gin And Tacos, from the article "The Hand of Fate".
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Friday, November 15, 2013
no. 362
0
responses
Labels:
achievement,
America,
behavior,
blame,
character,
charity,
civics,
class warfare,
culture,
fairness,
fate,
justice,
management vs. labor,
rat-race,
responsibility
Labels:
achievement,
America,
behavior,
blame,
character,
charity,
civics,
class warfare,
culture,
fairness,
fate,
justice,
management vs. labor,
rat-race,
responsibility
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
no. 179
White Liberals: “Charity first…after personal wealth and power.”
Because how are you going to tell everyone how we should help Africa if you can’t fly on a private jet to get to the 4-star resort / convention center?
At least when Republicans charge $5,000 a plate, they look you right in the eye and tell you it’s because they just really like money.
I’ll take callous assholes over callous assholes who fucking lie to me about it.
Oh, and while I’m on the topic: if the head of your “international charity” makes as much as a vice president of Wal-Mart, I’m not giving you any money. I make $400 a week. At least funding the Wal-Mart exec’s salary nets me a “Who Farted?” trucker cap and an industrial-sized can of Cheez Balls. If the only way your charity can find a qualified individual to run it is to bribe someone who otherwise wouldn’t do it, it’s not a charity. It’s that asshole’s ticket to a nicer house. And I’m not funding that.
Besides, in 2011, Wal-Mart gave almost a billion dollars to charitable causes around the world. Sure, they funded it with Chinese serf labor. But again, they’re fairly up-front about it.
The Virgin Prince
Because how are you going to tell everyone how we should help Africa if you can’t fly on a private jet to get to the 4-star resort / convention center?
At least when Republicans charge $5,000 a plate, they look you right in the eye and tell you it’s because they just really like money.
I’ll take callous assholes over callous assholes who fucking lie to me about it.
Oh, and while I’m on the topic: if the head of your “international charity” makes as much as a vice president of Wal-Mart, I’m not giving you any money. I make $400 a week. At least funding the Wal-Mart exec’s salary nets me a “Who Farted?” trucker cap and an industrial-sized can of Cheez Balls. If the only way your charity can find a qualified individual to run it is to bribe someone who otherwise wouldn’t do it, it’s not a charity. It’s that asshole’s ticket to a nicer house. And I’m not funding that.
Besides, in 2011, Wal-Mart gave almost a billion dollars to charitable causes around the world. Sure, they funded it with Chinese serf labor. But again, they’re fairly up-front about it.
The Virgin Prince
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