GIVING AND RECEIVING

Last year, I commented on the RED campaign here and here, so it's interesting to read this:

Via typing is not activism (a cool blog I've discovered)

Bono, retire from public life and we’ll donate a ton of money to fight AIDS is exactly what it sounds like. Gotta love that. Turns out that the RED campaign has spent more on marketing associated brands - like American Express - than it has actually raised for charity. Hmmm. What does that sound like….?

St. Basil on the profit motive (4th Century):

"While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself."