I am extremely cynical about the semi-frequent “fun runs” to raise money for cancer research or whatever in my city. It’s usually upper middle / upper class people feeling good about themselves for raising a couple of hundred bucks each, and diverting traffic and trams on the weekend (when this affected me I was a cafe worker commuting on the weekends).
You know how else we could fund this cancer research, and way more than your feel-good bullshit? Oh yeah, we could tax you properly. No more capital gains discount, etc.
I feel the same about Movember and my company promoting it. You know how else we could raise money for men’s health, company, you could pay more in tax. Just like a tiny bit more would be waaaaay more than the piddly little tax free donation you’re kicking in.
Charity fund-raising is only necessary because of the failure of the state, mostly. In my opinion.
Wait what if everyone just paid a little bit of money so that kids could eat. Even people without kids would pay and it would just be taken out of their pay… or kids can go hungry…
I make my kids lunches every day. I still would if they were free, and school lunch should be free.
I wish I could comprehend why some people think hungry kids is OK. At the same time… I kind of don’t want to understand them. I want them to not be selfish pieces of shit instead.
Usually the excuse I hear on the ‘‘we can’t just feed children’’ crowd is that they don’t want their tax money, or anyone else’s helping the WRONG children. Often they mean non white children. There’s a strong history in white supremacy of stopping people from feeding black children, government or private efforts, the FBI has killed people over it.
Oh I know the excuses they give (and the racism behind so much of it). I just can’t comprehend why, which is why I say I don’t want to understand, just have them, you know, not be shitty.
At least locally there is a push for it which I’m advocating for. We just got preschool for free too, so that’s a step in the right direction - lunch is next on the docket, I expect some battles there…
This story should help you comprehend that crowd. In their ideal world, hungry children pull themselves up by their bootstraps because being hungry motivates them to work harder. Children working to pay off their lunch debt is the pinnacle of their ideology.
I really doubt his parents specifically are the problem. They seem more than willing to give him enough money to do so, usually if my kids give me a financial goal I can afford I try and make it easier for them to get that amount of money.
Doesn’t this kids parents pay for it? How else does he get “allowance”?
I know another way parents can contribute to the so-called lunch debt…
I am extremely cynical about the semi-frequent “fun runs” to raise money for cancer research or whatever in my city. It’s usually upper middle / upper class people feeling good about themselves for raising a couple of hundred bucks each, and diverting traffic and trams on the weekend (when this affected me I was a cafe worker commuting on the weekends).
You know how else we could fund this cancer research, and way more than your feel-good bullshit? Oh yeah, we could tax you properly. No more capital gains discount, etc.
I feel the same about Movember and my company promoting it. You know how else we could raise money for men’s health, company, you could pay more in tax. Just like a tiny bit more would be waaaaay more than the piddly little tax free donation you’re kicking in.
Charity fund-raising is only necessary because of the failure of the state, mostly. In my opinion.
Wait what if everyone just paid a little bit of money so that kids could eat. Even people without kids would pay and it would just be taken out of their pay… or kids can go hungry…
I’m sorry. We’re too busy trying to take money from that system so we can give it to rich people who want to send their kids to private school
I make my kids lunches every day. I still would if they were free, and school lunch should be free.
I wish I could comprehend why some people think hungry kids is OK. At the same time… I kind of don’t want to understand them. I want them to not be selfish pieces of shit instead.
Usually the excuse I hear on the ‘‘we can’t just feed children’’ crowd is that they don’t want their tax money, or anyone else’s helping the WRONG children. Often they mean non white children. There’s a strong history in white supremacy of stopping people from feeding black children, government or private efforts, the FBI has killed people over it.
Oh I know the excuses they give (and the racism behind so much of it). I just can’t comprehend why, which is why I say I don’t want to understand, just have them, you know, not be shitty.
At least locally there is a push for it which I’m advocating for. We just got preschool for free too, so that’s a step in the right direction - lunch is next on the docket, I expect some battles there…
This story should help you comprehend that crowd. In their ideal world, hungry children pull themselves up by their bootstraps because being hungry motivates them to work harder. Children working to pay off their lunch debt is the pinnacle of their ideology.
I really doubt his parents specifically are the problem. They seem more than willing to give him enough money to do so, usually if my kids give me a financial goal I can afford I try and make it easier for them to get that amount of money.