This photo was sent my way by someone who knows I work in #food security. I don’t know where it was taken or who deserves credit. (The tickets appear to name a pub).
But I’d sure love to see this kindness replicated. Widely. It’s critically needed & warms my heart. ❤️
@Sheril I don’t get it.
I’m thinking all those would have had way more effect going to a food bank. Or taxes, in the case of a sane gov.
Here we see a restaurant profiting off the charity of people, on top of some of those meals likely never getting used up at all.
World Bank data suggests a higher rate of severe food insecurity in Norway than in the US (but that’s deeply suspicious…)
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.SVFI.ZS?locations=NO-US
Also, “paying taxes” implies some pretty huge assumptions about the existence (and necessity) of a bureaucratic state.
@scottmatter @notthatkaren @Sheril No, it does not imply increased bureaucracy.
We all already pay taxes, as everybody should.
Personally I'm a firm believer in #UBI, which shows in all studies time and time again it results in people getting lifted out of poverty.
It is an example of taxes being distributed in the most simple way possible - *everybody gets it, period*. It quite literally would require significantly less bureaucracy, compared to dealing with food stamps for example.
If you re-read my post, you’ll see I did not mention “increased” bureaucracy.
The claim that taxes are the best way, or that everyone should pay taxes, is fine if the only world we can imagine is one of bureaucratic states.
What if we dare to imagine beyond that narrow paradigm?
Sheril Kirshenbaum
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Scott Matter