Has anyone formally studied idea that philanthropy undermines civil society by replacing redistribution taxation with discretionary?
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you mean because better info gets to the market about what people want if they spend their luxury money on goods and services?
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. No, because it frames redistribution as Randian burden freely borne rather than paying society back for use of shared resources
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.@themattsimpson Which they should. I prefer impersonal civic institutions to personal ones as far as possible.
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@themattsimpson Yes. The whole reason safety nets are needed is that communities take care of their own in part by dumping on out-groups.
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@themattsimpson In-group/out-group framing of goodwill creates a garbage (CS sense) class of outcaste unfortunates who belong nowhere.
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@themattsimpson I'll happily take up the strong form & argue "personalizing" safety nets is unjust not just in effect but in principle
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