LaRouchites aside, you’re preaching to the choir.

Maybe someone somewhere has made a comprehensive list of reasons porkies do philanthropy. The word philanthropy largely implies that we talking about porky’s ill-gotten gains and not our wages. AFAIK the major reasons are PR; tax advantages; backdoor investment; ego fulfillment; and power, both in terms of wielding it and in accumulating more of it.

As usual, Second Thought’s video provides links for deeper dives: Why Billionaire Philanthropy Won't Solve Anything

Edit to add: Oh, this was a link to an answer. I thought you were asking a question 😄

I created a Comradery account just for her and NC long ago, but had to switch to Patreon because it was in beta and had issues.

Right, that’s been the subtext of space races since the start. Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun

I’ve run into this several times since the Gaza prison break a week and a half ago.

OH YEAH!

Links to archive.today are useless to me because they almost always put me into a CAPTCHA infinite loop, and they obscure the original link, so I have no way of knowing the original source.

Ironically, I have a paywall bypass browser extension that would probably have worked on the original URL.

Anyone know anyone who’s worked for Singham or worked at Thoughtworks when he ran it?

Guys is it normal that Katherine Maher was CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, and subsequently joined The Atlantic Council, and currently serves on the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board?