Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

[Cratic3947]

@Gnostic_Bishop

Have the rich and powerful lost their altruistic instincts?

Humans are the most altruistic and good of all the animal species, yet at present, our rich and powerful allow the poorest of us to starve to death by hoarding their wealth. This is unheard of in the animal world.

9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind-blowing fact. - Upworthy

Generally speaking, in ancient days the rich and powerful insured that the poor were taken care of to the best of their ability. In the past, the rank and file demanded that the rich and powerful live up to that good altruistic trait by revolting against them. The French Revolution is a good example of this. Have the rank and file lost their altruistic and good characters by allowing the rich and powerful to let people starve to death while doing nothing?

Are the notions of liberty, equality, and fraternity dead in the world?

Is mankind at the point of losing the altruistic instincts that has made us the greatest animal that the world has ever produced?

Regards
DL

How do you come to such poor conclusions? The more rich people a country has the better the people are fed… Do you own thinking…lol!

And why aren’t you in Venezuela? …Or how many of the homeless sleep at your house each night?

[Samm]

@mobulis

@Samm

@mobulis

@Samm

@mobulis

Animals are far better than we are.

At what? Being unsympathetic to the plight of others of their species?

They do what they do to survive, not because their evil like us.

Wrong. Animals (other than humans, that is) are amoral. Morals, including evil, are human construct. Animals kill without empathy. Many animals even kill other animals just for the fun of it (and then play with their corpses) not for survival. If you watched the nature shows on PBS, you would know that.

Now, how are animals better than people?

They aren’t evil.

What did I just say?

[Samm]

@POPCORN

why were you not cashing in during the good times? poor financial advice from someone? put everything into gold maybe?

a small fortune. why don’t I deserve it?

Because you have it. You should have given it to the needy.

[POPCORN]

I do give a lot of it to the needy. why don’t you? or maybe you do?

[Samm]

@POPCORN

I do give a lot of it to the needy. why don’t you? or maybe you do?

If you still have more money than they do, there is still a problem.

[POPCORN]

I tithe 10% to my church and I donate 35% to charity. what do you do? and why is it a problem? no one has explained that one to me yet.

[Samm]

@Samm

If you still have more money than they do, there is still a problem.

@POPCORN

I tithe 10% to my church and I donate 35% to charity. what do you do? and why is it a problem? no one has explained that one to me yet.

I just did. If you still have more money than they do, there is still a problem.

[POPCORN]

I still don’t get it

[Eagle-Keeper]

I know even though my wife and I make more money now we were able to save much more 5 or so years ago than we can now.

[WuWei]

@POPCORN

and I donate 35% to charity

bull feathers.

[Samm]

@POPCORN

I still don’t get it

It’s simple math. If you have more money than them, you need to give them more until you don’t.

[Gnostic_Bishop]

@Toll_Collector

But there’s really nothing anyone can do about it.

Not if you are defeated before even starting.

Regards
DL

[Gnostic_Bishop]

Well put, but taxing the anything out of anyone goes against the notions of a fair taxing system.

Fairness beats unfair and is longer lasting.

Regards
DL

[Gnostic_Bishop]

I just picked these up. Enjoy.

How super rich companies harm us all — and try to cover it up | Anand Giridharadas | Big Think

Winners Take All - Anand Giridharadas

Regards
DL

[Gnostic_Bishop]

@Samm

It’s simple math. If you have more money than them, you need to give them more until you don’t.

I guess the word fairness escapes you.

Regards
DL

[Samm]

@Gnostic_Bishop

@Samm

It’s simple math. If you have more money than them, you need to give them more until you don’t.

I guess the word fairness escapes you.

Regards
DL

Life is not fair.

[Blackwolf]

Matthew 19:24

[Janet_Miller]

They earned that money.

You didn’t.

It really is none of your business how they spend it.

If they want to give to a scholarship fund, or organization like Médecins Sans Frontières, or Little Johnny Rotten’s bail account, it really is none of anyone’s damned business.

Those who truly are altruistic give because to them it really is the right thing to do—not to be seen as charitable.

You know, I really think if you were interested in this topic, you’d run a search on a net like www.ask.com like “To what charitable endeavors does (Insert Name Here) donate his or time & resources, & you’d get numerous hits depending on who is the object of the question.

Jimmy Carter has done a lot for Habitat for Humanity. Kirk Douglas & his wife, Ann Buydens, helped build a women’s homeless shelter in L A. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has given of herself in every cause from feeding the hungry on Thanksgiving & in her native Brazil to pediatric cancer research.

But I don’t think you’re really interested in it. Like many the less fortunate are simply a smokescreen, an excuse to bash those who have done well for themselves.

[Camp]

You know your history. Most famous member of the South Fork Hunting and Fishing club.

[WuWei]

@Camp

You know your history. Most famous member of the South Fork Hunting and Fishing club.

I am a self-educated idiot.