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   Neal Babcock (he/him) (nealbabcock@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 00:26:45 JST Neal Babcock (he/him)

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   • Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist

   @drmaddkap Yep, and then you'd take credit for your friend's donation and maybe even a tax write off.

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     Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist (drmaddkap@meow.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 00:26:46 JST Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist

     I have $1,000 in my wallet. My friend has $5. I pressure him into giving me a dollar so I can donate it to charity.

     This is exactly how those appeals to donate the change at cash registers work.

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     Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist (drmaddkap@meow.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 00:59:22 JST Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist

     @thomasfuchs @NealBabcock @drmaddkap But here’s the thing - for the mega corps that do this, they have hundreds of millions of dollars. But they want to “help” those of us who are broke to donate to charity. When they could do 1000x more good than all of us combined.

     It’s a way of generating good PR, while encouraging the poor to help the other poor.

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     Donald Ball (donaldball@triangletoot.party)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 08:12:26 JST Donald Ball

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist

     @thomasfuchs @NealBabcock @drmaddkap Um you must not know about this one: https://qz.com/cvs-customer-checkout-register-donations-lawsuit-1849855922