Sunday, March 22, 2009

Things They Should Invent: financial vs. political/social generosity calculator

I've known people who every xmas make generous donations to the charity of their choice, then spend the rest of the year encouraging politicians to weaken the social safety net.

Someone should come up with a way of calculating how much a person needs to give to charity to mitigate their anti-socialist actions and ensure that no net harm is done to society.

Or, if you don't like my presenting this with the socialist position as default, someone should calculate how much political action is needed to outweigh lack of donations to charity.

2 comments:

Seana said...

This comment is unrelated to your posting.

I just finished watching the last half-hour or so of a CBC program called "Talking Canadian". It was an interesting look at regional dialects across Canada, with a few predictions about future usage. It dealt with English, though it would have been fun to hear about French. Maybe there's an equivalent program on SRC or something.

The point is that it made me think of you. So, hello again.

impudent strumpet said...

Oh cool! I didn't hear about that at all, but I'll definitely watch it later (thank you timeshifting!)Thanks!