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For a comparison of scale, consider the (rare) healthcare worker [who does not work just for money (and therefore does not actually need the day's or month's wa
by blunte 7y ago
For a comparison of scale, consider the (rare) healthcare worker [who does not work just for money (and therefore does not actually need the day's or month's wage) who still goes into work to help the sick during this time] to _the Facebook_ who has built its wealth via very questionable means and is now donating supplies it otherwise did not need.
Forgive my pessimism here, but I'm not impressed. Good that they did it, but countless individuals of minimal means regularly give everything they can to help their fellows without credit or reward.
- ALittleLight 7y agoWhen someone does something good, I don't think it should be an impulse to point out that others have done better. Donating supplies is useful. Facebook should be lauded for that.
- blunte 7y agoIn isolation of actions, sure. But in the scope of Facebook's normal actions...? Are we so easily distracted by the sparkly costless action that they now take that we forget the several known (and who knows how many unknown) deceptive and harmful actions they have intentionally taken against us in pursuit of money? I'm not trashing them for doing something good. But just as I don't bow to the guy on the street that puts his candy wrapper in the rubbish bin instead of throwing it on the ground, I don't admire FB for giving out something they already possessed and were not having a planned use of.