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Does Capitalism Beat Charity?
- ggm 3y agoTaxes beat charity hands down. The rise of modern charities in housing, food supply simply mirror the decline in public housing and the welfare state. The rest of this piece is an apologia for rampant profit and shareholder value. It doesn't begin to actually address the differences between northern European us taxation and civil society, or the USA and Canada. Ponder this: which economies have the lower health costs and higher standards of living and life expectency.
- symmetrist 3y ago100%. It beats any and all forms of socialism. This is why Americans are extremely rich and better off than everyone else in the world. Just look at American weapons. It's state of the art and soon to be controlled by AI and autonomous software. Most planes actually fly themselves already so fighter jets just need to use AI designed for destroying enemy fighter jets and tanks with the help of transponders for identifying friendly robots and weapon systems.
- firexcy 3y ago> I have a high prior that any nonprofit that hasn’t been rigorously shown to be good is probably bad, and the potential advantage of capitalism over normal charity usually isn’t enough to overcome my decreased certainty in its efficacy. It’s just not convincing to say that immediately after an improvised performance of EA maths justifying a water dispenser charity against Instacart…