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Your meme specifies: In a truly free market, voluntary charity would help the poor - indeed that's a fact.
So you're saying philanthropists cause cancer in children? And that's why they donate to children's cancer hospitals...?
This gentleman authored a horrid book.
His arguments countered.
The poor are the product of the free market operating. The free market is what's creating the problem in the first place.
Now that's just a straw man you're using to derail the argument.
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A strawman that may actually be true, given how much poison the rich have dumped into our environment.
Indeed, all the externalities of businesses operating is how we find ourselves in a climate and ecological disaster.
That's quite possible, rich businesses have a quite extensive history of poisoning environment.
The best is when they make more money setting up charities to slightly address issues they created