• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I am well off, but not well off enough to lift other people out of their misery. I contribute what I easily can, but every day I wish for the world to change, even if that means having less income as a result.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      25 days ago

      I often think that if I won the lotter or such while my personal situation would change it would still be depressing because of the world situation. Its like even with excess what charity to focus on. Unfortunately I think anything excess would need to be used for politics nationally to try and change things which would be so much less personally satisfying than working with charities locally.

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        24 days ago

        And that number would have to be astronomical. I thought I read that disgraced trillionaire number 1 was putting like 300M in the Republican war chest? Like youd have to win the Powerball north of 800M to have an observable effect of you dump it ALL in.

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          24 days ago

          well with less you could work at the primary level and see if you can get better canidates on the ballot but yeah it would take a lot.