#fauxlanthropy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fauxlanthropy, aggregated by home.social.
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@KeithDJohnson
Yes, we cottoned onto this many years ago, most #philanthropy is #fauxlanthropy.A brilliant documentary on how #thePeople have been systematically transitioned from being an active '#citizen' to a docile '#consumer' is The Century Of The Self (#AdamCurtis/BBC, 2002).
It cover a suite of propaganda techniques used to #engineerConsent for all manner of abuse by large #corporations.
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@KeithDJohnson
Yes, we cottoned onto this many years ago, most #philanthropy is #fauxlanthropy.A brilliant documentary on how #thePeople have been systematically transitioned from being an active '#citizen' to a docile '#consumer' is The Century Of The Self (#AdamCurtis/BBC, 2002).
It cover a suite of propaganda techniques used to #engineerConsent for all manner of abuse by large #corporations.
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Jeff Bezos – who is giving Dolly Parton $100m to donate to charities of her choosing – gets richer by an estimated $205m a day, the equivalent of someone on the median UK salary donating £34.56. Ever donated thirty quid to charity? Where’s your splashy news write-up? (6-min read)
#bezos #philanthropy #fauxlanthropy #charity #wealth #tax #theGuardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/15/jeff-bezos-philanthropist-taxes-amazon-founder
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Jeff Bezos – who is giving Dolly Parton $100m to donate to charities of her choosing – gets richer by an estimated $205m a day, the equivalent of someone on the median UK salary donating £34.56. Ever donated thirty quid to charity? Where’s your splashy news write-up? (6-min read)
#bezos #philanthropy #fauxlanthropy #charity #wealth #tax #theGuardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/15/jeff-bezos-philanthropist-taxes-amazon-founder
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Jeff Bezos – who is giving Dolly Parton $100m to donate to charities of her choosing – gets richer by an estimated $205m a day, the equivalent of someone on the median UK salary donating £34.56. Ever donated thirty quid to charity? Where’s your splashy news write-up? (6-min read)
#bezos #philanthropy #fauxlanthropy #charity #wealth #tax #theGuardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/15/jeff-bezos-philanthropist-taxes-amazon-founder
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> Does a little bit of good.
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> Talks alot about it.
#bankerCrimes #taxAvoidance #fauxlanthropy #charity #notForProfit #UBIFixesThis #bitcoinFixesThis
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@selea
Agree.We'd sign that #petition, but #changeDotOrg is Cloudflare.
Taking into account what we've seen, #Amazon is among the worst and most predatory in every space they touch.
Maybe he'll be so "touched by space" that he'll stay there.
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@info_activism
If a #billionaire doesn't pay at least 50% in tax, but #laundersIdentity through #philanthropy, they should go into a database. At random one (or 2%) of these #billionaires will have to pay 70% of their yearly #revenue in that country in tax or be #brokenUtp.Our namesake, #DickSmith, as part of his #FairGo movement wanted the #extremelyWealthy to pay they way.
He called for more #transparency on tax returns – to shame those #greedy, wealthy few.