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Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

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Re: Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

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man how can you even give a fuck about that. i cant believe HN sometimes

But just think of the shareholders!!!!

Or the coin-holders. Folks who invest their money and then get scammed by folks who hide behind donations tend to put their money somewhere else next time. Short term win for some kids can mean a long term loss for everyone. Look past your nose, friend.

Re: Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

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Thought experiment: imagine that I'm a huge multinational company who makes billions in profit. Imagine that I evade (or "optimize") my taxes as much as possible using all the tricks in the book. Now I decide to invest a few hundreds of thousands of dollars to, say, donate computers to schools. It's great, isn't it? But wouldn't it make more sense not to do that and simply pay my taxes instead, which would probably e…

Morally speaking you are a random nobody on the internet complaining about a guy's morals who has built an industry that has substantially increased our GDP and lifestyle and now is having a substantial impact on decreasing global poverty and is going to put all the value he fairly earned back into the economy when he croaks in 20 years

> complaining about a guy's morals

> the value he fairly earned

I see what you did there.

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