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How much volunteer work is necessary only because the agencies that should have and would have done those things have been shut down to fund tax cuts for the rich?
Or even more directly because the problems being addressed are a direct consequence of government policies instituted solely to benefit a handful of wealthy donors?
How many of those programs would even need to exist if more people volunteered... voluntarily? Wouldn't have needed to tax people from the get-go. Let alone tax people then tax cut for the rich.
Woe, such a deep and enlightened take! Next you're going to tell depressed people to, "just be happy".
Seriously, grow up and realize the real world is more complicated than you playing doll house...
Says the armchair internet warrior.
Why should ordinary people already burdened with responsibilities donate their precious time and energy just so that some rich fucks can hang on to even more of the wealth they neither need nor deserve?
Yes spite your local community and the people around you to shake your fist at the rich people who live nowhere near you!
How dare they do something somewhere else!
Meanwhile dumbfucks like me bike/walk their community and clean up the parks on a pretty consistent basis so that we don't have to pay some company (that's inevitably owned by a rich person mind you) to contract with the HOA and do some menial task. WOE IS ME! THE SHAME! How dare I help my community!
Edit: Your mentality is that if you let your community suffer, you refuse to volunteer and do nothing at all... that you might happen to get more taxes to "fix" the issues that volunteers could have handled. So this drives up tax costs... Just for ~325 people (or less if local government) in government to figure out a way to alter and move that money into their pockets. Could have just stopped the money flow from the get-go and kept it in your pocket.
Funny how you changed the topic from an arm of the corporate media haranguing people to volunteer to people freely choosing to volunteer....
I didn't change the topic at all though did I? I stated one thing which was that the stated stuff in the article doesn't necessarily make the rich richer... and implied heavily that it could even make them poorer... since you know... taking time away from actual jobs to do the things that the religious nutters are recommending in this article would meet the criteria.
But you see... the lemmy hivemind can't comprehend that nuance. So here we are. People blaming me for something that I never said.
You know what a job is though right?
Volunteered voluntarily? You should go back and finish elementary school.
Yay ad hominem!
It's funny, apparently your elementary school didn't teach you all that much either did they? Would seem that I chose to phrase it that way on purpose since... well... you know it's weird to put the terms next to each other like that right? Might lead a reader to actually think about the concepts and infer some meanings that the author might have been trying to impart.
But that's okay. You'll do better next time!
But here, let me barney style it for you. If you work for a living... and have to pay taxes for a service that's occurring rather than volunteering and handling it yourself, you are in a sense volunteering... in an involuntary manner, your pay to pay for that service!
HUZZAH! Almost like words can have meaning!
I love how condescending you're trying to be!
I return what I get.