(July 17, 2019 at 11:09 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 17, 2019 at 10:57 am)Brian37 Wrote: DID YOU NOT READ my post.
Food Lion "donates" meals to the community..... Sounds great on the surface. I don't care if they are going to the elderly. And actually, their adds, at least locally, are not mentioning age in feeding people, where I live. If giant corporations stopped using "charity" as a PR scam, and actually paid livable wages and paid taxes to fund social security and medicare that old person wouldn't need that "charity", and less people would need food stamps regardless of age.
YES paying a livable wage IS the best charity.
Yes, I read your post. I always read what you write before I reply to it. I also make an effort to understand what you're getting at.
I don't see why you have an issue with Food Lion donating food to needy people. I grasp your point about taxes going to fund social security, but that (increased wages) isn't going to help people that are hungry right now.
And no, paying a livable wage isn't charity in any way, shape or form. It's fair, it's just, it is ethically the right thing to do, but it isn't charity. If it were charity, Food Lion would pay people $25/hour not to come to work.
Boru
You DID completely miss my point.
Yes I used Food Lion as an example, but it would not matter to me what giant entity did this.
McFly! It isn't that hard to understand.
Good tactic in economic reality= PAY LIVABLE WAGES.
Bad economic tactic which is what giant corporations love= Pay crappy wages, then, rather than pay livable wages, make "charity" look like you fucking care.
