I always seem like an asshole, but I never round up. I used to work at a nonprofit and those collections are nothing stacked against a big 500k donation from a corp. They are mostly for awareness.

That and I don't know what some of them are supporting. If I donate something I like to know what it is first. The 18 year old worker is not going to enlightened me well they scan my cans of green beans.

I still donate to a few causes everytime I can, but I do it in larger amounts than 10 cents and directly through them.

And fuck them for taking my money, donating it, and taking the tax write off themselves

Edit: the CPA cartel has notified me this indeed fake news. I think the book cookers are in this thread

I just assume they have a charity relationship that meets the minimum to not technically lying, while allowing them to just keep 90% of the money.

Yeah maybe the average person can’t be bothered to make a distinction between billionaires and millionaires (most celebs) even though the difference happens to be 1000 to 1.

But they should, if working class solidarity matters and isn’t a one-way street.

Im Not defending the billionaires but the reason the Hollywood types are even brought up at all is they are 100 times more peachy than billionaires who just bank roll some dark money super PAC so you never actually hear from the person themselves

1 - it usually gets them a tax write off 2 - they do little other than talk about it and any explanation of their involvement is usually heavily exaggerated (except maybe John Cena's make a wish work) 3 - they view their name attachment as worth enough, and people aupplaide them for the lip service, further feeding their narcissism 4 - it is wielded around with their superiority complex, leveraged against others more often than not 5 - the orgs themselves mostly go to funding their leadership groups. Where the largest cost (overhead) is paid before money actually makes it claimed place of benefit. The largest part of the overhead are the leadership and executive members. And they make CRAZY money for "non-profit" positions.

The family behind LIDL is the richest in Germany…

I shop at LiDL here in the US. It's interesting that they're doing so well when they have much lower prices and pay their employees better than other grocery stores in the area, yet these other stores claim to be barely scraping by or even losing money.

I'm torn, is there a good bit in the first half or is it all a scam to guilt us into losing money and LIDL still comes out on top on average?

Yes exactly it's about their power to influence

And who keeps mars bars in the fridge?

Psycho

And that was definitely the point they were making

I know it's not generally popular here on Lemmy but some scripture comes to mind: 2 Corinthians 9:7

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

The compulsion of celebrities and influencers would apply here I think.