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Originally Posted by Crawford
I don't want to defend the Kochs, but I don't think they're evil.
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id seriously recommend reading this first before saying so.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-Hi.../dp/0307947904
their family built wealth in part by building refineries for Hitler and Stalin
they tried to blackmail their own brother because they suspected he was gay
they use their philanthropies as cover for political and tax purposes (to say nothing of the fact that the problems capitalist philanthropists claim to be solving are rooted in the same economic system that allows them to generate such enormous wealth in the first place, and ignores the structural problems that prevents us from solving them)
they actively campaign and finance "think tanks" to campaign against against the interests of the working class, child labor laws, anti-trust laws, social security, the minimum wage, unions and the right of workers to organize, environmental laws...i could go on
they are beyond evil if such a definition exists. their policies and beliefs and actions make life unimaginably worse rather than better, for millions of people.