Feed the hungry or feed political ads?

[Sal]

It’s about what we as a society want to value in our corporations, constructs and individuals.  We have a generation of greedy consumers. Did life imitate corporate structure or vice versa? Is altruism a better goal than empathy, and is it strong enough to overcome greed?

Dude, did ya even read TGN excellent post? Altruism, empathy, actually putting in the work no matter how you spin it, doesn't work in these parameters & conditions. We're seeing something analogous here, which is at least 30 years old, after a banking collapse in the 90'ies due to a housing speculation bubble, which I won't go into, since it's just local shit that went down on some flyshit of a nation in the middle of the North Atlantic.

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Grocery bag drives are part of the problem, not part of the solution.  The explanation is long and convoluted and paints the endeavor in a harsher light than might be warranted.  

That doesn't take away from the value of your participation - I only mention it to suggest how ubiquitously our better nature is subverted or stymied on this issue.

[tangent] I could say something akin in the mental health awareness department.

The way people talk about mental health, pretty much anywhere - although my focus is local - is bloody annoying, to put it mildly. It's so bloody easy to account for a broken leg, even something that isn't so easily visible in people's bodies, like early diabetes ... no one bats an eye to fixing a broken leg or just funding & production for insulin, but oh boy, do that same approach for mental health, doors are slammed in your face. So bloody annoying and, to be frank, frustrating to the point of anger. [/tangent]