Institutionalized Charity

 

                                                              Institutionalized Charity

What is the relationship between profit and social values? Does the modern world identify profit with usury and sin? Is profit possible in a religious community or is the only trade barter?

If so, can charity make up for these errors? Can a plaintiff lawyer gain credit by starting a charity, however insincere?

Is there a break-even point? Is there a point where a business can be excessive in its charity? Or is charity by its very nature so good that there can be no excess? That even bankruptcy is acceptable in a good cause?

Or is it possible that individuals can be charitable but institutions cannot? That institutions mimicking charity is like a dog in a tutu or a bear dancing--the denigrating and inappropriate application of one entity's characteristics to another? Like blackface.

Human appropriation.

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