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You solve this by dissolving all non-profits and seperating the state and the private sector completely. All tax money must be spent by government organizations

You solve this by dissolving all non-profits and seperating the state and the private sector completely. All tax money must be spent by government organizations or call for bids. Something like this should be illegal: https://www.vox.com/recode/22321861/jeff-bezos-climate-earth-fund-andrew-steel-amazon https://www.vox.com/recode/22321861/jeff-bezos-climate-earth... First, Bezos steals money from hard-working employees and tax payers. Then he takes billions and funnels them into climate politics that no tax payer asked for.

seanmcdirmid 2y ago
Why should Bezos spending his own money on climate change be illegal? A non-profit simply is distinguished by the lack of profit. Since the USA only taxes profit for corporations, that means no taxes, but anyone could set one up to varying degrees of success. Employee salaries and any company they invest in that is for profit are still taxed normally.
- michael9423 2y ago
  Because the people pouring billions into policy changes that should be done transparently by tax-payer money also are the same who make the world an objectively worse place by creating a toxic work culture that leads to mental health decline, suffering, etc. and argue that you can't pay a worker more than a given amount and then as a consequence amazon workers can't even afford health care. But for some reason this system where money is "so tight" suddenly leads to billions in profit that can be just thrown away into unrelated activities independent from the company amazon. This is basically circumventing democracy. Money from publicly traded corporations is drained where it would be needed into activities that manipulate the public and don't have political oversight. It's especially ironic, as Bezos says "We will emphasize social justice, as climate change disproportionately hurts poor and marginalized communities.” Well, how about starting with "social justice" in your own company.
  - seanmcdirmid 2y ago
    > objectively worse place by creating a toxic work culture that leads to mental health decline, suffering, etc. ... > and then as a consequence amazon workers can't even afford health care. Amazon will eventually solve these issues by completely automating their warehouses so that they no longer need to exploit poor workers anymore (who made more at Amazon than the previous job options they had available). Would that make you happy? Your kind of social justice feels toxic to me, actually. It is basically a "perfect is the enemy of good" argument that prevents us from making much progress on the problem at all. Just because Bezos sinks his own money into causes he is interested in does not suck away the capital that government could be investing in the problems instead.

seanmcdirmid 2y ago

Why should Bezos spending his own money on climate change be illegal? A non-profit simply is distinguished by the lack of profit. Since the USA only taxes profit for corporations, that means no taxes, but anyone could set one up to varying degrees of success. Employee salaries and any company they invest in that is for profit are still taxed normally.

michael9423 2y ago
Because the people pouring billions into policy changes that should be done transparently by tax-payer money also are the same who make the world an objectively worse place by creating a toxic work culture that leads to mental health decline, suffering, etc. and argue that you can't pay a worker more than a given amount and then as a consequence amazon workers can't even afford health care. But for some reason this system where money is "so tight" suddenly leads to billions in profit that can be just thrown away into unrelated activities independent from the company amazon. This is basically circumventing democracy. Money from publicly traded corporations is drained where it would be needed into activities that manipulate the public and don't have political oversight. It's especially ironic, as Bezos says "We will emphasize social justice, as climate change disproportionately hurts poor and marginalized communities.” Well, how about starting with "social justice" in your own company.
- seanmcdirmid 2y ago
  > objectively worse place by creating a toxic work culture that leads to mental health decline, suffering, etc. ... > and then as a consequence amazon workers can't even afford health care. Amazon will eventually solve these issues by completely automating their warehouses so that they no longer need to exploit poor workers anymore (who made more at Amazon than the previous job options they had available). Would that make you happy? Your kind of social justice feels toxic to me, actually. It is basically a "perfect is the enemy of good" argument that prevents us from making much progress on the problem at all. Just because Bezos sinks his own money into causes he is interested in does not suck away the capital that government could be investing in the problems instead.