Company Gave To Charity? Company Good Now! (The Jimquisition)
Added 2020-06-15 13:20:14 +0000 UTCActivision is very generous, and there is nothing cynical about its charitable donations. If you think otherwise, you're probably some sort of unAmerican monster.
Let's not consider the company's unwarranted financial subsidies, tax dodging, and contributions to the very socioeconomic system that makes most charities grimly necessary. Let's not think about Bobby Kotick's vast wealth, or how billionaires use philanthropy to maintain their unchecked power.
So long as you don't think about anything, Activision is very generous, and there is nothing cynical about its charitable donations.
Comments
That really crystallizes the point there, Trevor. That's the root of it, isn't it? If your Charity only extends as far as what that action does for you, it's not giving. It's free advertising.
JtheFool
2020-06-19 10:02:15 +0000 UTCBecoming? I dont remember time when he was Pro-capitalist.
2020-06-17 06:43:15 +0000 UTCWait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hang on a moment. "And, another million dollars to match employee donations"? They are expecting their employees to donate in the stead of their billions of dollars of profit? So, out of the four million that they claim to have donated, they didn't even donate that much?
Egor A. Palchyk
2020-06-17 05:37:57 +0000 UTCI adore how anti capitalist Jim is becoming
2020-06-16 15:32:37 +0000 UTCSo you’re in favour of zero taxes, and with that, presumably you’re in favour of having none of the things taxes pay for: roads, schools, fire departments...?
Pete Spicer
2020-06-16 13:41:06 +0000 UTCI'm fine with tax deductible charitable donations. That's one of the few things keeping tax from being outright theft; apportion. Tax Evasion is Theft Evasion, for the most part! If we could all pay zero tax, I think that'd be fair. Course then by the same logic, if we could all be subsidized instead of corporations, that'd be fair..
JtheFool
2020-06-16 06:17:11 +0000 UTCThis is probably your best work in a while, you hit everything so fucking hard on the head.
Yodasbigdick
2020-06-15 20:40:04 +0000 UTCStock buybacks underline the lie of "trickle down" economics. A lot of absurdly rich companies, when doing well, choose to use that money to make even more money for the top echelons of that company. The rank-and-file should feel grateful if they get hand sanitizer when they're obliged to keep working through a pandemic.
Kraken
2020-06-15 18:47:18 +0000 UTCThe only difference between CEO’s and mob bosses is that mob bosses admit that their charitable donations are for tax purposes.
2020-06-15 15:44:56 +0000 UTCThanks for this Jim. You give more accurate information about our economy then actual news media.
Mr. Martini
2020-06-15 14:57:55 +0000 UTC"I'm very charitable, until I cap my tax writeoffs!'
Trevor Bond
2020-06-15 14:42:39 +0000 UTC
