.@JeffBezos’s giving news is a perfect occasion to start asking ourselves important questions as a society about the future we want.
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Are the skills and values and methods that have built great fortunes but also built a winners-take-economy the right skills and values and methods to guide the pursuit of a fairer economy?
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Should the rich assume leadership of the pursuit of change, or practice followership first and foremost?
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Is the current decay of many of our governmental institutions an excuse to work around them when seeking to better the world? Or is it all the more reason to reform them first?
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Is it possible to change the world if you fear your world changing? How do you evolve to a place of being willing to risk the system atop which you stand for the greater good?
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When is social change a true win-win — and when is the idea of the win-win used to shame and marginalize important forms of change whose only shortcoming is not kicking something up to the winners?
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How can we get the rich to not only do more good but also less harm? To not only give more but also take less? To not only seek to make change but also stop fighting to maintain a cruel status quo?
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Does generosity even get close to what paying taxes would lead to?
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I favor a combination of high taxes with deductions for giving that meets effectiveness standards. For every rich philanthropist, there's lots of rich people hoarding what they've got and flying under the radar.
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And what about paying their employees better?
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Short-term: raise the minimum wage. Longer-term: basic income.
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@JeffBezos's focus on homelessness (placed in the broader context of Amazon's recent role in frustratg Seattle's efforts to address homelessness through a head tax) is a perfect case study for discussg private philanthropy, the state & who's best situated to serve the public.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I've got an idea, let's start taxing churches. If they do something charitable they can write it off like the rest of us. Let's start there and then move on to item #2.
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I’m pretty sure America has answered these questions
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Companies should pay the taxes to the cities they operate within and let those cities take that revenue and provide for their citizens. Letting corporations step in and do for us the thing we could be doing for ourselves is nothing short of a PR stunt with a silver lining. (2/2)
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Bezos is rich in no small part due to cities that abate his taxes for fulfillment centers (both on merch in them & for property they occupy) in exchange for "jobs", the majority which are not permanent, not filled from the community and are increasingly lost to automation. (1/2)
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