RE: Are Americans Just Stupid?
October 11, 2020 at 10:43 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2020 at 11:00 am by Anomalocaris.)
(October 11, 2020 at 10:02 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 11, 2020 at 9:55 am)Mermaid Wrote: Yes. Stupid and selfish.
Americans donated about 300 billion dollars to charities last year and put in about 8 billion volunteer hours. Either in raw numbers or per capita, Americans are the most generous people in the world.
Pretty hard to make the ‘selfish’ tag stick.
Boru
When a major fraction Americans would put a trump in charge of half of the world’s nuclear weapons just so they can more freely denigrate collective contribution to the collEctive good, and pay less, they hope, towards the general welfare of the world, or just the general welfare of the people of the country they profess to be patriots of, and stick it to those whose circumstances, or just the locations, of birth was less favorable than their own, it is hard to avoid the “extremely, ruthlessly, myopically selfish” tag.