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Dungeons & Dragons to Bring Adventure (and Funding) to 200 High-Needs Classrooms
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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It’s okay to be both.
$100 would cover a ton a basic supplies for a classroom and you clearly don’t have kids if you don’t think so. I buy supplies for teachers all the time and $100 covers plenty.
Yea, it’s also an attempt to drum up more business for them but they are a business. Why are we expecting pure benevolence from a corporation?
Do you also think rich white dudes who built libraries and universities in the 20th century did it benevolently? No. But we still appreciate the outcome.
You might find this Wikipedia article interesting. It goes to your library and university comment.
Yes, that is a good topic to introduce. These things don’t just happen. Small powerful groups of people take it upon themselves to keep things the way they want them.
That's not exactly how I read that article. Carnegie wasn't some saint but he could have piled his money up and sat on it if he wanted to. Adjusted for inflation he donated almost $6 billion dollars to charities and argued with the powered wealthy elite in America that it was their moral obligation to give their money to charity. He directed his money definitely and it could be argued that his money could be spent more effectively in other ways but if the options are Carnegie sits on his money or he donates how he wants then I think the latter is the better option (or the least worse option). Government wasn't interested in building libraries and Carnegie built over 2,500 of them in the US but also throughout Europe, South Africa, Barbados, Australia, and New Zealand. Carnegie was a bastard businessman, people died at the Homestead strike he's a grade-A bastard. But he's a bastard that built libraries that otherwise wouldn't have been built. It would have been better if his workers were protected and his wealth taxed and spent responsibility but that wasn't in the cards at that time. It feels like it isn't in the cards today either. But I'd be happier, or less angry, if Bezos or Musk spent their money on charity rather than low orbit space tourism and Twitter.
I can’t disagree with your take at all. It is a very multifaceted issue
I'm not going to lie I nearly didn't write that word salad up ( I apologize for not making paragraphs) because I thought I was going to get. "Lol whatever bootlicker" as a reply. +1 hero point to you
Well my response was pretty glib and painted with a very broad brush. You used a finer brush to paint your picture.
Frankly, I think both views have merit. There were good results from patronage of the rich, but I hate seeing them used as justification for the continued deification of the rich.
There's just too much hero worship in American society in general. We go ga-ga for the rich, the beautiful, athletes, actors, musicians, etc. It can be frustrating. Here's to hoping it isn't always like this. Who knows maybe someday large amounts of people will watch hours long lectures on ethical philosophy, historiography, physics, etc instead of baseball, football, and basketball. Most Americans can't name their senators or their governor but can tell you the name of some obscure athlete from two decades ago.