Message 763denigrated in this thread. David Koch was a strong supporter of libertarian and conservative causes and a generous philanthropist.
Here is a good look at his charitable giving. It is also exposes charitable giving by plutocrats as the pittance it is, compared to what they have taken from society. They should pay their fair share in taxes.
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In his recent book Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas argues that contemporary plutocrats who practice what he calls MarketWorld giving are Carnegie’s true heirs. Like Carnegie, contemporary moguls believe in the idea that after-the-fact benevolence justifies anything goes capitalism; that callousness and injustice in the cutthroat souk are excused by later philanthropy; that giving should not only help the underdogs but also, and more important, serve to keep them out of the top dogs’ hairand, above all, that generosity is a substitute for and a means of avoiding the necessity of a more just and equitable system and a fairer distribution of power.
This critique of charity as a false solution applies, it should be obvious, not just to right-wing billionaires like the Kochs but equally to their liberal counterparts: George Soros, the Clinton Foundation, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, among many others.
We don’t live in the 19th century. We should move beyond the sentimental hopes of a Charles Dickens, who dreamed of convincing the Ebenezer Scrooges of the world to abandon miserliness for do-gooding. Our goal should be to tax the Scrooges so that the Tiny Tims can enjoy Medicare for All
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