Food should all be free.
We make more than twice the food we consume just to throw it away.
But starvation is profitable.
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All artificial scarcity is profitable, that’s why access is limited and sold.
Conservatives would say this is communism and bad, which is why we should kill and eat conservatives.
I don't want brain worms from eating unvaccinated Republicans.
In practical terms, you feed them to pigs and butcher the pigs. The pigs act as a filter.
Not from prion disease.
Yeah prion diseases are fucking horrifying when you actually look into the details.
What if I don't want to eat a cop ? 🤨
According to the article, this thing is entirely funded by private donations. Apart from the most reactionary right wing edgelords, I've yet to see any conservatives argue against charity. Most just don't want to be FORCED to pay for others via increased taxes, but they're happy to give when it's voluntary.
I'm calling bs
I've yet to see any conservatives argue against charity.
They absolutely argue against charity if said charity benefits those they don't like.
Yeah, that sounds shitty, but what the article doesn't mention, despite being literally in the first paragraph of the press release that was linked, is that the real problem wasn't the zoning law violation, but the fact that the police department had received multiple calls for various crimes being committed there, including theft, harassment, drug overdose, and sexual assault. It also mentions various fire code violations involving the electrical supply, people cooking in non-ventilated rooms, etc.
It appears that the use of zoning laws violation to put an end to it was just a convenient excuse, but the author "forgot" to mention that in order to paint the city government in a bad light.
Here's another one. There are cases of places banning charity all over the place. Hell, you can't give out bottles of water to people stuck in line outside in Georgia if they happen to be voting. They cut social programs and claim churches/charities will pick up the slack, and then attack said churches/charities.
My point is here that conservatives will simply attack anything they feel is in their way. They simply want control. They want homeless people to be homeless because "they deserve to be homeless". They have absolutely no problem attacking charitable efforts, even if it has no impact on them whatsoever. They want to maintain the social hierarchy they feel should be in place.
Hayek just hated homeless people?
Have you read any of his books or delved into that side seriously at all, or is this a hunch?
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You're "forced" to pay taxes for the stability it provides the entire community.
Here's a great study on what causes crime:
Overwhelmingly most crime and violence in a community is related to the ability it's people have to earn income, housing, and healthcare. The very things our taxes are supposed to provide a security net for.
The taxes "forced" on you, to a point, are necessary for the stability of our communities. And the reason that stability is fading in most American cities isn't becuase of illegals, it's because of conservatives lowering and diverting tax revenues away from the social programs necessary to minimize crime. (Because those programs are "socialism.") Also conservatives fighting to never raise the minimum wage for a generation of Americans. What are the conservative policies on housing again? Oh yeah, people now have to compete with corporations to get them, so prices will never lower.
People are generally happy to pay taxes towards social safety nets when they understand the basic economics of the security it provides. Especially when there is a scientifically proven increase in violence and crime that comes from the erosion of that security.
If you feel "forced" to provide basic economic security to other Americans for the benefit of your entire community, and it's safety - then you don't have to look far to find a conservative who is against charity. Just look in a mirror.
We’ve been saying this for many years. It seems we have fostered a society that isn’t really interested in victim reduction as it is in vengeance. Only have to look at some of the countries with low recidivism rates.
I've always found that logic weird on their part.
If I am planning to do it anyway, because I recognize it is the right thing to do, what difference does it make if there are laws in place to ensure the less ethical among us do it as well?
Because it doesn't feel like a charitable deed when the money is taken from you by force.
This is like arguing for people to be allowed to rob you at gunpoint as long as they have a family to feed.
If you have more money than you could spend in a lifetime yes, you should be robbed at gunpoint to feed family's.
And now you know why most conservatives are armed to the teeth. It's to protect themselves from people like you.
See, the thing about charity is that when it's done correctly, it helps both, the giver and the receiver. The receiver feels good because their needs have been met, and the giver feels good for having done a good deed. As soon as you put a gun into the equation, that all goes out of the window, and it becomes a win-lose situation. Only one person is going to walk away satisfied, and the other might end up dead.
And if you think that's not a big loss because you hated them anyway, consider that one day, it'll be you.
Yes yes someday all the money will trickle down on me and it'll be my turn to be rich and then I'll get angry when my "all" my wealth is taken away from me and I'm just well off. They might as well murder me at that point I mean sheesh
Imagine going from upper class to just upper class. The horror!!!!
Why would you want to get rich in the first place if you believe that it’s more important to feed the poor? You’d be no better than the people you profess to hate, and you could easily avoid getting robbed by just donating anything you don’t need to charity.
Bro that's crazy has it crossed your mind that I don't want to be rich? Put me in that position and I'd be paying for ads and shit to get the government to tax people like me more.
Your not gonna catch me on any of that "Oh so you think wealthy people shouldn't exist" bs either btw. In a vacuum I think people should be able to make a lot of money from stuff they do but billionaires shouldn't exist full stop. The amount of good you can do with merely one billion dollars is genuinely kind of inconceivable and we have multiple multi-billionaires, and not anywhere close to enough good being done by them. They simply shouldn't exist. They'll be just as happy being multimillionaires though I'd quite like taxes to dramatically ramp up once your in the 10 millions, even that is far above where middle class is meant to be.
Put me in that position and I'd be paying for ads and shit to get the government to tax people like me more.
Why on earth would you do that when you could just skip the middle men and give the money directly to the poor? That seems a lot more efficient.
Philanthropy is ineffective, that's our current system and it's not working
Weird, I could swear I'm paying taxes for social security, medicare, and food stamps, yet somehow, most of the money ends up in the military industrial complex.
But I'm sure that if only the government had more tax revenue, they'd spend every extra dollar on welfare programs, right?
If we stop electing conservatives yes
Right, because Democrats are basically immune to corruption. /s
This is a flawed analogy, if Tax’s are the equivalent of being robbed at gun point, the real question is, would you rather be robbed by someone trying to feed their family or robbed by someone just adding to their pile of money. You’re getting taxed no matter what, ideally I would prefer that money go to help people.
The problem with taxes is that a rather large chunk of it just goes to the military industrial complex and other wasteful government spending, and very little of it actually ends up helping to feed the poor. If you donate to charity directly, there’s a much better chance that most of the money goes to actual people in need instead of the pockets of corrupt politicians.
I agree there, and I don’t think anyone is arguing that charities don’t generally do good work. I don’t want to see what little of that chunk of taxes that do go to helping people be cut away leaving only more of taxes to go in to the MIC, corruption and waste.
Conservatives have no real value system beyond "what is good for me right now?". They like or dislike things for transient, emotional, reasons. They might be in favor of charity when it's doing something they personally benefit from, but that's about as far as their reasoning goes.
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