Ok but I still think it’s cool that the Gates Foundation is trying to cure malaria.
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I thought this was settled by Beatrice and Sidney Webb.
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The Workhouses were run by local government. They weren't funded by philanthropy they were funded from the poor rates, a local property tax.
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Euergetism too for all the Paul Veyne fans out therehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euergetism
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Gilded Age? Rich people donating to public works to increase their profile has been happening since Roman times at least.
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Cf. Bert Cooper in Mad Men: “Philanthropy is the gateway to power.”
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also: “the rockefeller foundation” becomes”those people who brought you i, claudius” instread of “those people who brought you allen dulles’s CIA slush fund.”
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I'm sympathetic to this argument. But do you think it would be better if the rich just kept their money?
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