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That mindset worked well when our towns and businesses were smaller and tight knit. We live in a different world of global corporations with far larger areas of
by losteric 9y ago
That mindset worked well when our towns and businesses were smaller and tight knit. We live in a different world of global corporations with far larger areas of responsibility and externalities. Helping Seattle is great. However, people throughout Washington deserve help... you won't find Amazon, much less Seattle individuals, taking a 5 hour drive to volunteer.
As a shareholder, I don't expect or want Amazon to take ownership of community help. Their work is admirable but ultimately limited in scope and efficiency. Adding in overhead for accounting, tax enforcement, these issues would received more money and higher ROI if we funded them through higher taxes.
- jriot 9y agoYou want your money, as shareholder, to return a profit and don't want the company focused elsewhere. However, you want the government to step in to solve this problem using other people's money. That is the problem with America, greed oversee everything else and when it impeded on our greed we automatically fall to the government to the solve the current issue. Communities are still perfectly capable of taking care of their own. Smaller towns throughout the US do this but you don't see those from the larger cities and/or coasts doing this. I live in Eastern WA/Western ID, and the community is still very much involved in these types of projects without the government stepping.
- lazyasciiart 9y agoWhat a pile of nonsense. Tell us more, in this thread abut a charity for homeless people in Seattle that runs on an enormous level of community and volunteer support, how big city people are evil and soulless.