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Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by rocqua »

fragsworth wrote: post #7

I suspect the audience of people who really like Cards Against Humanity leans towards people who like being "politically incorrect", because the card game often inspires people to be incredibly offensive. It seems likely that their audience includes lots of 4channers, shitlords, extremists, racists, or any other group of people known to be generally offensive. By making moves like this, they're showing everyone else…

> people who really like Cards Against Humanity leans towards people who like being "politically incorrect"

Not quite, it leans towards people who think that being "politically incorrect" is funny. The great thing about CAH is exactly that it should be clear everything is said in jest. It is important in a society to be able to joke about the taboos. And it is great for people that enjoy this kind of humor to have a place for it where people don't suspect you say these things because you mean them.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by notatoad »

djsumdog wrote: post #38
n0her0 wrote: post #30

They took the money and put it where it seemed like it would have the biggest impact. The people who paid $15 should all be very happy to have been a part of this. For many, especially those with little income and high economic insecurity, holidays are very tough and actually result in working few days having less money at a time of greater need. To those seeking to criticize, it was not meant to be a perfect example…

It really is. Way better than that Holliday hole.

i feel like this wouldn't have been as well received if it weren't preceded by the holiday hole. CaH has kind of built a reputation where they do silly things with silly amounts of money. Because they spent last november literally dumping money in a pit, they can fairly easily avoid criticisms about how this isn't a perfect scheme with the "it's better than throwing money in a pit" excuse.

And i don't in any way mean this as a criticism. There's a lot of benefit to be had in experimenting with non-perfect ways to help the poor, but way too often those projects are criticized harshly for being imperfect. I love that CaH is able to do this.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by jquery »

geofft wrote: post #23
jquery wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a stunt to prove socialism is great. What it actually demonstrated is that charity works great. Charity is not socialism.

If charity works great, why doesn't government-mandated charity work even better? There are a lot of things, like civil defense and firefighting and road building, that historically started working more reliably when they became government-run instead of depending on volunteers or private industry. What makes charity different?

Because socialism has been proven to fail, over and over and over. Roads are not socialism. Roads have not destroyed societies like Venezuela or Cuba. Socialism is when the government decides private property is illegitimate and it fails every time it’s tried. Some amount of socialism may not kill the host but it’s a thing to be feared and wielded carefully not lauded.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by bobcostas55 »

Literally every single poor person pictured is obese. That baby is almost certainly going to be overweight in a few years.

I'm amazed this isn't a bigger issue politically. Nutrition is a huge driver of health inequality. In 50 years the obesity rate has quadrupled. A return to the eating habits of the 1960s is perhaps the greatest possible welfare achievement right now (in the US), with impact far larger than universal healthcare. And it doesn't need to cost anything.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by donohoe »

FLGMwt wrote: post #31

Oh hey, on top of the prevalent skepticism and detractions in the current discussion, I'll just throw out that, on its own, this is objectively a Good Thing. I won't dismiss the fact that this is good PR for CAH, but it is still morally-motivated positive impact for some fixed number of people. A company took some profit they had and exceptionally distributed to some of their less fortunate customers. Don't immediate…

+100

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by adwf »

eutectic wrote: post #2

Why only consider within-country inequality (and, yes, I realize that the answer is 'because it's partly a publicity stunt, and humans are biased and parochial')? The average American is incomparable wealthy compared to the average African, and you can on average save a life for only a few $thousand to one of Givewell's top recommended charities.

Because people have a natural tendency to give when they have plenty.

A poor person can spare little, a comfortably off person can spare more. If you really want to increase the charitable givings of a population, decreasing wealth disparity and making more people feel comfortable about their finances (ie. redistributing wealth), is a pragmatic way to do it.

The more I have, the more I give. The more the general population has, the more they will give.

Everyone ultimately has to focus on themselves in hard times. Want to increase charitable givings? Make it easy to be charitable.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by jquery »

GunlogAlm wrote: post #4
jquery wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a stunt to prove socialism is great. What it actually demonstrated is that charity works great. Charity is not socialism.

Ah, the old "private charity will solve all our problems" meme.

People stopped starving to death when capitalism created enough wealth that we joke about First World Problems. Socialism doesn’t stop people from starving, look at Venezuela. Look at China’s history.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by sctb »

Helloworldboy wrote: post #14

How can such a boring game have such a large following? The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes. Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.

This article is not about card games. Would you mind taking another look at the guidelines and then following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by [deleted] »

FLGMwt wrote: post #31

Oh hey, on top of the prevalent skepticism and detractions in the current discussion, I'll just throw out that, on its own, this is objectively a Good Thing. I won't dismiss the fact that this is good PR for CAH, but it is still morally-motivated positive impact for some fixed number of people. A company took some profit they had and exceptionally distributed to some of their less fortunate customers. Don't immediate…

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Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by notatoad »

eutectic wrote: post #2

Why only consider within-country inequality (and, yes, I realize that the answer is 'because it's partly a publicity stunt, and humans are biased and parochial')? The average American is incomparable wealthy compared to the average African, and you can on average save a life for only a few $thousand to one of Givewell's top recommended charities.

yes, why do something good when you could do something else?

they found a good thing to do. The fact that there are other good things they could have done doesn't make this less good.

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