demonfox13 said:
theprof00 said:
Kasz216 said:
theprof00 said:
well, I doubt that, because charities are scams. Charities are just ways to make people feel good about themselves. What they really should do is combine their money and hire fifty thousand people to build a national railway.
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Then when it's done forty five thousand people are out of jobs?
You can believe what you want, but even the staunchest liberal doesn't usually try and argue government is more efficent then charity.
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Explain to me how giving money for nothing is better than giving money for something. Oh and I never said anything about government. I said instead of giving to charity, the rich people should instead band together and make a national railway system.
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Yea but as pretentious as you attempt to be with that last statement, you still did not respond the most important question he stated "when it's done forty five thousand people are out of jobs?" Explain to me how you would solve that problem? Japan itself is not that big at all, so 45,000 people can finish that job fairly quick (not considering factors such as earthquakes in certain areas). Don't get me wrong plenty of rich people resort to philanthropy to feel better about themselves, and other times charitable organizations are used for devious purposes such as tax write offs. In the end there is nothing wrong with even a half hearted attempt at helping others as long as you are not pressured into doing so.
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took you long enough to write that. While you did so, I had already editted my post to include the answer, which I did not, one minute after I posted the original.
Now, why would you say it's pretentious? Both employing and training unskilled people into skilled workers while at the same time benefitting the country is a typical method for improving the foundation of the populace. This is how places like India become tech powerhouses because so many of them got paid by the gov or privately to bring the entire country into the modern era. So while there is 45k people out of jobs, these are now skilled labourers who know how to work, know about tools and parts and can go back home and put those skills to use in different ways, and act as a space on a resume.
Take for example, Co-op university programs. Students actually PAY so that they can work somewhere under the wing of their university, guaranteeing them experience in various careers and jobs. And this is the opposite of what I proposed. I proposed paying them, whereas many are willing to pay instead.
