A way to lower their tax burden.
Would you like to round up your payment so we can collect millions of dollars from our customers and make that donation in our name?
Even better is that they’ve often already made a donation and anything you’re giving them goes to them anyway.
Even the commercials have fine print like “donation amount capped at 150,000” or similar.
this does annoy me. I want to live in a society that does not need charities.
Mutual Aid is the alternative.
Taxes are how voters mandate mutual aid from business transactions.
I actually want a social safety nets, healthcare, education, and such that charities are just unnecessary.
Charities do a lot more than that. There are millions of charities that cover everything you can imagine, from the tiniest to the largest. How about the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery? Or the Anchorage Amateur Radio Club? The Delaware Federation of Garden Clubs!
My point is that there will always be non-profit organizations. People, at the level of individuals, care about millions of different issues. It seems rather heavy-handed to suggest that a single organization, the government, is going to take over all of those functions.
Ideally environmental issues would be handled such that species would not need to be recovered. Im mean this is my wishful type of thing. clubs are clubs. Nonprofit sure but not charities really.
If society truly valued what charities do, they wouldn’t need a special economic non-profit status. They exist to permit governments and corporations to abdicate their obligation to provide necessary elements of the society they exist within.
Billionaire individuals and organisational charities are polar extremes of the same policy failure. Neither should exist, and when they do, societies tolerance of them must be brief.
It also just functions to launder their money. If you can name a philanthropic organization it’s probably structured as a tax shelter for one or several billionaires.
Squid do you find these somewhere?
All over the place, but friends send them to me too. This one was sent by a friend.
That or Squid is actually a time travelling inter-dimensional being that is spending their time here for a few thousand years because they got bored with eternal immortality.
He just travels to the future where he alread posted all this stuff, takes the images, goes back and posts them. This creating the flying squid paradox.
sounds a lot more realistic tbh
Charities are the millionaires and billionaires laundromat
Reputations? Perhaps.
Most of it is just to hide money from taxation.
Even better: ask your customers to round up their amounts to the nearest dollar so you can donate those proceeds to a charity of your choosing, while the customer thinks you’re doing a Good Thing.
I hate that so much. You’re the giant megacorporation. You give a rounded up amount to charity.
I love all the good that the Gates Foundation has done.
I love all the good that Amazon’s One Roof has done.
I welcome our new overlords…
its more than that. apart from getting as bad as money laundering in cases of not enough regulations, the most innocent use is probably agenda pushing with untaxed money
This isn’t even it’s final form. All you need to do is make a fundraiser where you march the contributions of the peons you are bamboozling. If they don’t raise enough money it’s because they weren’t motivated not because you don’t have enough money. Then you take the money and laundry it through your non profit you are in the board of. Donate 20% and use the rest for “admin”.
Not only have you laundered your reputation, you made money in the process.
I like to refer to it was Reputation Laundering
