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|'''Meet the folk hero of Davos: the writer who told the rich to stop dodging taxes''' | |||
[[File:Rutger Breger.jpg|thumb|center|[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/30/18203911/davos-rutger-bregman-historian-taxes-philanthropy by By Dylan Matthews 1/30/2019 Vox]]] | |||
Take someone like Bill Gates, or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I’ve got very mixed feelings about them. There’s extraordinary evidence that they are doing a lot of good. They’re basically saving millions of lives, and who could be against that? | |||
But I don’t want to live in a society where we are dependent on the charity of one guy and his wife for something like that. That’s not what a just society looks like in my mind. In any just society, philanthropy should play a very small role, and you need to have a strong welfare state, strong governments, so that together, you can democratically decide on what you want to do. | |||
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[https://player.captivate.fm/episode/6dda69e2-687e-4b41-8176-0f658205e4c1 AudioCast DailyKos Electoral Systems Discussion] | [https://player.captivate.fm/episode/6dda69e2-687e-4b41-8176-0f658205e4c1 AudioCast DailyKos Electoral Systems Discussion] | ||
