M. J. Murphy
Dec 18, 2020

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Fascinating that you're not using your obscene amazon dot com fortune to lobby Congress for progressive tax reform that would stop funneling money from poor people to rich people.

Or simply dividing your fortune equally among all the former and current amazon.com employees it was stolen from through grotesquely unfair and exploitative labor practices that make working for amazon modern-day slavery.

Philanthropy, no matter how generous or well intended, will never fix inequities produced by an economic system that funnels money from poor people to rich people (who then use their wealth to change the system so even more money ends up in rich people's pockets).

We are not fooled by your "giving."

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M. J. Murphy
M. J. Murphy

Written by M. J. Murphy

Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, Univ. Illinois Springfield

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