uploading ultraRealist thinking.
Charity
Take 2 billion and then give 100 million
away.
Philanthropy? or just plain Thievery?
Charity appeals to our gracious nature. It is quite
noble to give a portion of our hard earned labour, to those more unfortunate
than ourselves.
Obviously, it is impractical to travel to the source of the suffering
and give a direct hand. It is more efficient and wiser to concentrate
our labour into what we specialise. Surplus credit can then be handed
to an trustworthy Agent, to be allotted to those, that they deem most
needy.
These Agents are the Charitable Trusts
and Charitable Foundations.
The weakness of the system is the medium of the transaction. It is the
transposition of your labour into money, that alerts the acquisitiveness
of the Authoritarian Elite. It is no accident that when you wish to give
your time to a good cause you must first have to open up a bank account.
Once donated the benefactor can happily depart the scene, with a newly
purchased virtuous demeanour.
Proximus sum egomet mihi
I am closest to myself
Is this however, the most fitting way to expend
your labour?
How can you anticipate and calculate
that you will build up the sufficient labour credit that will sustain
you, for the end of your days? As your strength withers and your body
tires, there will come a forced retirement of your labour. Miscalculate
and you, yourself, will end up a charity case.
Should such a fate befall you, then just hope that your indignity is captured
under the media spot light.
Surely, it is more sapient to invest any surplus
in you and your families education. If you don't, you will never
know of that innovation, that could have brought forth general alleviation.
If you still doubt my frank advise, then delve into their annual accounts.
Study their financial investments and idle speculations. Inquire into
the exorbitant remuneration and the over generous benefits of the administrators.
Then finally, their wasteful dispensation.
The thing to remember,
Always.
The choice is yours.
Just Remember this, when the fat comedians and the
multi-millionaire rock stars, tell you from the TV screen, that there's
not enough food in the world, and that they want your hard earned labour
money.
Obviously, it is not Purely
an Industry of guilt, there can be found a majority of good people
and good causes. Generally smaller is better, the local hospice or the
hospital fund for an expensive allopathic scanner.
By all means, take your unwanted goods to the local
Charity Shop, here you can be safe in the knowledge, that these
items will directly make the life of someone
more ameliorate. At this
point the good use of any further proceeds, is a
bonus.
My last visit down our local one, I off loaded so many books on to them, they could have started their own library. Three bin bags full.
Still to see my book 'Detecting the Fakes: A Collector's Guide to Third Reich Militaria' by Robin Lumsden, displayed in their window though. Probably get a few quid for it.
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