Both egoism and altruism are human nature. We are capable of both (for the most part). Currently, we have a socioeconomic system that rewards and encourages primarily the former. Why not try it the other way and see where that brings us?
I wonder how well a system would work where you get more money, the more you help people/help solve problems (with problems i mean like pollution or something)
It definitely would be nice if that were the case, but i think the best way to incentivice people is to reward them. Better yet make a competition out of it. Just gotta reward actions that benefit other people.
Like let people be millionaire's but to get there they need to help like ten thousand people or something
I kind of fail to see how a life in which all my basic needs are secured as long as I agree for them to be secured for everyone else, thus freeing me from anxiously giving my life to the futile attempt to crawl above others, is "altruistic". Working your ass off for nothing but your crude survival and the benefit of a handful of others doesn't seem very selfish if you put it in this perspective.
In any case, whatever is going on right now - it's... not good, to say the least. Wanting to fix the problem with the problem is horribly naive.
Anyway, nice meme.
I'm sure I'll find a guy with a box of 100 samples who will take my random box of tech scrap! Or I could pay him 5 quid and save the hassle.
smh read some theory
"Communism is when we do bartering, the more you barter the more communister it gets"
(Carl Marks, inventor of the Fallout bartering system)
So.. wtf is the problem? They're donating. Why aren't you happy?
It’s another way billionaires are taking away power from the common people. They are donating money and reducing their taxes by doing so. What it effectively means is that instead of the democratically elected government deciding on what causes that money is spent on, the billionaires get to decide instead.
More like billionaires donating ‘charities’ that push a certain agenda, e.g. the NRA, instead paying taxes that can be spent on things likje public schools or libraries.
Or they just create their own ‘charity’ that supports whatever political goals they have.
The problem is that the billionaires get to decide how the money is spent, instead of ‘we the people’. You are basically giving them control over how that tax money is used.
If the state can incentivize charity to negate the effects of capitalist naked self interest, why can't the state just... help directly?
