| Kwaad said: I am not bashing the handicapped children. If you think I was, you should re-read what I say. Also, I dont know how many paralized people you know, but alot of them have rather weak arm abilities. Flinging the Wiimote/nunchuck around would be very difficult. For some of the most paralized people in the world. They use a... get this. a JOYSTICK. to controll their wheel-chair. HappySqurriel - ever heard of tax deductable? Nintendo got paid. In FULL for those. Putting someone in a game... that costs you money. Do you think they can file on their tax report. "spent 2,000$ modeling boy and creating thing to do." Would be tax deductable? Ever wonder why rich people donate around 100-500,000$/year to charaties? Because that is all they have to pay in taxes. So they give things they can get cheap. (say for nintendo a 50$DS) and then write the other 80$ off of their taxes. Money is key, money is god. Welcome to the a corperate world. There is a company 10 miles down the road that is a nasty polluter, and their known for it. What do they do? They donate a million dollars every year to 'beautifying' the city. Tax deductable of cource. Gives them a good rep. Gave a million dollars to help repair the local area. They gave nothing. They took the money from uncle-sam, and gave it to local-sam. It is PR. |
Wow, you demonstrate so little understanding it is unreal ...
Unless you're breaking the law (or know of magical tax loopholes) you rarely end up with more money by giving to a charity than you started with. Essentially you don't pay taxes on your donation so if you donate $1 you don't pay the $0.20 in taxes on that $1. The reason companies do this is because it is good PR.
I could ask you which does more good a easter-egg in a videogame or thousands of toys being donated to sick children at hospitals but it really doesn't matter. The point of my post was to demonstrate how ignorant you are towards the actions of companies like Nintendo and how much charity they really do. You ask what Nintendo does for paralized children without knowing that they just recently helped a lot of sick children ... Next thing you'll do is ask what Microsoft has done about disease around the world (because of Folding@home) without realizing that the Gates foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Aids this year.
