Charity is important, and I hope you will be generous today. But what if charity by the ultra-rich is just a cover for their greed? Shouldn’t we be concerned about how they accumulate their fortunes — and the social ills they may exacerbate along the way? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-grotesque-distortion-of-philanthropy#details
A grotesque distortion of philanthropy

Listen now (4 min) | The gonzo ethics of seeking to make gobs of money so you can give it away

Robert Reich

@rbreich charity is simply an excuse to perpetuate the systems that generate our massive inequality. The people should decide how resources are distributed; not individual capitalist parasites. Does anyone really trust billionaires to make better decisions about how their resources should be used than a democratic process would? We see what they do; shuffle money around often to themselves or family members via charities and use that as a tax avoidance scheme.

While people freeze to death.