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I meant that more in a state of mind way: you give food to an unhoused person, you feel good for the charity you are doing, they feel good because they forgotte

I meant that more in a state of mind way: you give food to an unhoused person, you feel good for the charity you are doing, they feel good because they forgotten how food tastes like, neither of you are interested in overturning the system that allows the greatest object in the universe as we know it, the human brain, to rot on a sidewalk: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."—Stephen Jay Gould.

pas 4y ago
I think this hard love approach to forcing people to revolt doesn't really work. Just as bringing democracy by guns didn't, as strategic bombing didn't, etc. Giving someone charity makes both parties very aware that this is an exceptional one time deal, that might be repeated, but the default is no-charity. It takes time to build trust and alliances which is needed to then make a change.