its my charity i can spend where I want to!

Last friday I spent 3 hours debating with a professor and friends about major philanthropies in the world being selective and having corporate interests weaved into social motives. I can understand the cynicism towards the concentration of owenership in the world and the non-democratic means by which developing countries are getting their aid, but in all honesty, what do the critics think they are asking for. Attempting to tackle the mega corp dynamic of the Western world with critical contempt towards a company that is creating some form of humanitarian effort rather than nothing at all is just knit-picky for the sake of being critical.

Life is about doing what you can for those who you can, and doing it exactly your way. YES, the concentration of wealth in the world today sucks, YES it would be nice if say The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped every struggling nation as opposed to simply focusing their ressources into marketably rich markets like that of China's technological growth or Thailand's needed databank infrastructure in the wake of the tsunami, but its not going to happen. The point behind this particular rant is that if your pissed with how the world works, then shut up, invest your time, and do something with the resources you have to fix the problems that you can fix in your lifetime. Granted you may never have the corporate wealth of a Forbes top 25 list but if you can put something together that pushes your values and ethics on to other people, than you are doing your part to contribute to the well being of this planet as a single member of it. end rant.

posted by mr. tomas ubik @ Thursday, March 24, 2005