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Remaining neutral has always been a game outside of time. I don’t dance to your time—for a certain time, at least. But I can measure it out for you, if you’re willing to pay, I’ll time it with a stopwatch (Swiss-made, of course) and I’ll sell you clocks, I’ll guard your paintings, rings, diamonds, and all your baggage, while you’re off playing or fighting. No objection could be made to that.
Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov
If my account of philanthropic giving as a duty of reparative justice succeeds, important moral and political implications follow. First, at least up to a significant threshold, affluent donors should, as a matter of moral duty, exercise no personal discretion when deciding how to give and to whom. Indeed, they should regard their donations as a way of returning to others what is rightfully their own. Second, public officials should refrain from encouraging personal discretion through public discourse and should design tax incentives to private giving in a way that minimizes this discretion.
Philanthropy in Democratic Societies
Rob Reich;Lucy Bernholz;Chiara Cordelli
Capitalism is not the only mode of production in which massive poverty exists alongside enormous wealth, but it is the only mode of production where a surplus of goods constitutes a problem: unsellable goods lead to the ruin of their owner while people who need these goods the most are unable to sell the only thing they possess: their labor-power. The reason is that capital has no need for their labor-power, since it cannot profitably make use of it.
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
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