The Case Against Philanthropy

Human dignity should never be conditional to the generosity of billionaires

Matthew Barad
GEN
Published in
4 min readNov 28, 2019

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The wealth class would like us all to think that their charitable donations act as a counterbalance to inequality in ways that are fair and just.

Jeff Bezos became the latest to play into this mantra last week, when he donated $98.5 million to help combat…

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