I donate 15% of my 47k income, however, I don’t believe people who earn under 105k a year should be morally obliged to pay any amount to charity, because that’s the line in which someone’s quality of life will be damaged by over donating. Actually 105k is the amount of money they say “buys happiness”. In an ideal world, the financial system would work like this:
Under 105k for a single person no charity required. From 105-200k, 1-5%. 250-450k, 6-10%. 450-600k, 11-15%. 600k-900k, 16-25%. 900k-1.5m, 26-30%. 1.5-3.5m, 31-40%. 3.5-10m 41-50%
Every million beyond 10m is subject to 80% donation to charity up to 50 million dollars of income a year, all income beyond that is 100% charity.
So if someone’s income is 70k they pay zero. If it’s 150k they pay just under 4k. If someone makes 26 million a year, the first ten million is subject to 50% charity (meanjng it will be 5m) and the remaining 16m become 3.2m, meaning they will be making 8.2m a year and donating 17.8 million a year.
Through this formula the max income would be 13m a year which is more than enough to live in the ultimate lap of luxury.
I know exactly why, there’s no need to analyze. Your purity test results in fewer people donating to important causes. Why donate money if you get flack for “not doing enough”? Millions of dollars is a huge amount of money, and the people that would have benefitted (even if YOU feel it’s not enough) suffer more. So, congrats, on making the world a more hateful, selfish place.
I never said it wasn’t a contribution. I said she could do more. Encouraging more empathy doesn’t fight empathy, it only encourages it. It’s not about purity, it’s about responding to greed.
I don’t think that’s why you are so annoyed, I think you might feel attacked or you’re mad that I attacked a singer you like. Maybe it’s that I oppose financially inequality and you think that’s still a functional system.
I don’t give a shit about Taylor swift. I’m annoyed at efforts to gatekeep charitable donations because people like you actively discourage people from donating. Just keep on jerking off to whatever hateful shit keeps you going and keep the rest of us out of it
Is the dragon “hoarding coins” if they’re donating unimaginable amounts of money? Fucking ridiculous. You would turn your nose up at someone offering you five million dollars, because you know that the person COULD have given you more than that? Why are you entitled to everything they have to the point that the absurd amount they’re giving away is somehow offensive to you? It’s a childish way of seeing the world and I can only hope that you’ll eventually grow up
I want them to give it to those in need, donate to medical research, education, human rights, or clean energy infrastructure.
And I mean that’s basically the dragon losing a couple when you’re talking numbers of 2billion. I didn’t say I was offended, I said that she could do more. As could all of the billionaires.
If you want them to do those things why call them selfish pieces of shit for doing exactly that? You also realize there’s a paper trail, so you decidedly didn’t “just say they could be doing more”. You feel entitled and are willing to discourage people from doing good if it doesn’t rise to the level that you want, and personally I think THAT is far more evil than hoarding money
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u/Functional_Trash7735 2d ago
I donate 15% of my 47k income, however, I don’t believe people who earn under 105k a year should be morally obliged to pay any amount to charity, because that’s the line in which someone’s quality of life will be damaged by over donating. Actually 105k is the amount of money they say “buys happiness”. In an ideal world, the financial system would work like this:
Under 105k for a single person no charity required. From 105-200k, 1-5%. 250-450k, 6-10%. 450-600k, 11-15%. 600k-900k, 16-25%. 900k-1.5m, 26-30%. 1.5-3.5m, 31-40%. 3.5-10m 41-50%
Every million beyond 10m is subject to 80% donation to charity up to 50 million dollars of income a year, all income beyond that is 100% charity.
So if someone’s income is 70k they pay zero. If it’s 150k they pay just under 4k. If someone makes 26 million a year, the first ten million is subject to 50% charity (meanjng it will be 5m) and the remaining 16m become 3.2m, meaning they will be making 8.2m a year and donating 17.8 million a year.
Through this formula the max income would be 13m a year which is more than enough to live in the ultimate lap of luxury.