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i think any community org really needs to encourage essentially tithing, for nothing other than being sustainable even after the initial idealists cycle out.
you do need to build structures and infrastructure and connections and an entity that can be the collection of services, if you want it to be sustainable once the people with passion have to leave.
income adjusted, sure, but you can't make it on just donations alone until a lot more is built than these preliminary steps
Semi-related, one of the stupidest things that I see coming from otherwise right-thinking people is talking about taxes as making people "pay their fair share." Nobody knows what fairness is. Everybody knows what it means to pay to keep things that you need running...
that's a mild misunderstanding of their ideology imo.
they want social services defunded because they see generational wealth as the safety net, and if you cant save enough to have that, well, that's the fault of you and your bloodline.
for things they think should exist, yeah, they probably think people should pay their fair share, that is, proportional to how much they use the service, compared to the conservative who just pays for private solutions, or is a failure (in their eyes) but thinks they can work their way out of it
Oh, sorry, miscommunication on my part. I meant "right-thinking" as "not having terrible ideas," not referring to right-wing thought. It looks like Biden has picked up that baton (in the US) most recently, but I've heard the line from the more socialist camp, too.
And yeah, on the right, the idea is that you definitely pay for things out-of-pocket, but never cooperatively, because we didn't build society to...socialize, I guess.
