#philantropy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #philantropy, aggregated by home.social.
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Traditional philanthropy is bad. It’s often corrupt, too. But Effective Altruism is even worse.
When you reduce all of ethics to economics, improving the lives of 450 billion farmed shrimp is always going to win a statistical analysis over funding long-running education programs with uncertain results in small & impoverished villages.
Crazy timeline.. 🤦♂️
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#rich #cishetwhitemen prentending #philantropy : "look at me! Ain't I a good boy giving my hard earned money for the greater good"
Me, just being a regular everyday normal person: "where's my tickertape parade for paying my #taxes every year?"Philantropists make me philantropissed. If they payed the greater good the taxes the actually owed, there'd be much less need for rich idiots to swoop in slap bandaids on problem for the media attention.
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Gates to give away fortune in historic philanthropic push
The billionaire philanthropist announced he will give 99% of his fortune — currently $168 billion — to his foundation, which will double its budget to $200 billion before shutting down in 2045.
#Philantropy #Research #Care #Health #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #Politics #Economics #Aid #Poverty #Disease
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This is amazing: @billgates makes an incredibly generous gift to all of us (humanity) and demonstrates what success should really look like. Let's hope the other tech multi-billionaires see this and realize they should at least increase their giving. https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/n20-years-to-give-away-virtually-all-my-wealth
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#BillionairePhilanthropy #TaxTheRich #FairTaxation #WealthInequality #Satire #SocialCommentary #Charity #meme #memes #funnyimage #funnyimages #funnymemes #funnymeme #funnypicture #funnypictures #funnypic #funnypics #funny #futuramameme #futuramamemes #futurama #TaxReform #EconomicJustice #PhilanthropyFail #TaxEvasion #Inequality #SocialSatire #Irony #Billionaires #TaxJustice #SocialIssues #WealthGap #TaxLoopholes #SocialResponsibility #BillionaireTaxes #Philantropy #TaxFairness #FuturamaQuotes
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In some pockets of rich people's society things like impact investment (not only expecting monetary returns, but also a positive effect on society) are becoming popular.
However
a) still a niche (>60% of their money remains at the stock market, a chunk real estate and most greedy overlords still hoard gold...).
b) its still capitalism, just companies with some small positive side effects (think about companies doing renewable energies, recycling, organic farming...). But still growth-oriented and usually *some* percentage return is expected.
c) there is building a whole greenwashing and "you are the hero" industry around these well-meaning rich people. Of course.
d) the focus on economically depressed regions leads to very creepy situations when the objective is to "provide the poor with affordable basic services" like housing, telecommunication or healthcare, or giving loans to female farmers in Guatemala. And while this has indeed some positive effects and might create jobs and improve the situation of the target groups, it is deeply questionable when the uber-wealthy get richer by selling something to people below the poverty line.That said, impact investment is at least a step in the right direction, since it decreases the underlying obsession to multiply capital, but to try to break less things on the way and maybe doing even something good. I prefer having them bragging at the golf club "hey, one of my start-ups is providing menstrual hygiene products to schoolgirls in central africa" than the stuff they are currently talking about. But then again we have the power issue, similar as in philantropy: who decides what is "positive impact"? Some religious folks could think that it is a good thing to invest altruistically in a company that offers homophobic and antiabortist SexEd in schools. Or an oligarch buys a newspaper. Or twitter...
We can't let and don't need to leave these decisions to them. Hard cap on wealth at 10 millions.
#TaxTheRich #ImpactInvestment #AngelInvestor #Philantropy #SustainableFinance
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„Only a fraction of tax-exempt philanthropic funding is actually used to address social and ecological issues while the majority is reinvested in life-destroying activities via the extractive markets with high, ongoing returns on investment.“
#wealth #philantropy #taxes #equality #TaxTheRich
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/2/it-is-time-to-tax-the-rich-and-their-foundations
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“The billionaire philanthropist doesn’t necessarily have to sign up to democracy – he might have his own, superior definition of what the common good looks like. Peter Thiel (co-founder of Paypal), for one, thinks freedom is more important. Whose freedom? Not your concern, earthworm.”
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“Cash is like power: it can’t be given, it has to be taken. Relax, I’m not talking about robbing them: I mean tax.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/07/the-problem-with-tech-bro-philanthropy
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If only there were more Craigs then Elons and Zucks.
“I want to keep the focus on giving nearly all my money away to worthy causes, not how much I’ve made. I wish everyone who has been as fortunate as I have been would do the same.”
#Internet #Craigslist #CraigNewmark #philantropy #democracy
https://observer.com/2023/10/craig-newmark-interview-craigslist-democracy/
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Neu im #DVPWblog: Natalie Rauscher hinterfragt den politischen Einfluss "wohltätiger" Stiftungen in den USA zur #Klimapolitik zwischen Gemeinwohl und Eigennutz.
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I just rewatched Beth Barnes's TedX talk about effective charitable giving. She summarizes in a single minute what humanity could all achieve by simply donating 10% of our income to effective causes. It's so inspiring, tears welled up in my eyes, again. If you have 60 seconds to spare, please give this a watch.
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#LeonardLitz #LGBTQ+ #Foundation launches #fund to #support #transgender #community.
In addition to #grant #funding, the #TransPLUS #Initiative will seek to #amplify #voices of #TGNCNB #leaders and build greater #publicawareness of the community’s #socioeconomic and #political #challenges
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Philantropy https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/05/23/leonard-litz-lgbtq-foundation-launches-fund-to-support-transgender-community/
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"B Corp" stands for Bullshit.
https://youtu.be/idBdAw5PuTI
#Capitalism #Ethicalbusiness #philantropy #bcorp -
A new Knight Foundation study examines investment in women- and racial or ethnic minority- owned firms (“diverse-owned firms”) among those used by the country’s wealthiest philanthropic foundation endowments. This is the third study of charitable foundations in the Knight Foundation Diversity of Asset Managers (KDAM) series. https://knightfoundation.org/reports/kdamphilanthropy2022/
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It's #GivingTuesdayCA.
Why not support Indigenous-led projects doing transformative work in their territories?
Find projects at The Circle on Philanthropy’s Feast House: https://feast-house.ca/kin/
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'these entrepreneurs are working hard on creating a world – a future – in their own image. They are investing in very selected futures that, on the whole, clearly benefit particular groups of people over others'
philantropy depends on systematical inequality. #capitalism is bad.
