Everyone is interpeting the comic wrong, shitty title most likely.
Lions = billionaires
Gazelle = workers
Why do the workers need education? To be taught to accept their place in the food chain. It's about propaganda, not taxes.
I like your interpretation but the title is literally the title the artist gave it. I'm not sure who is right, the artist or the observer.
Couldn’t it be that charity donations are tax deductible?
Exactly right - its in the first panel; "giving back". It's addressing the scraps that whales (large donor's, sought by non-profit organizations) throw to NPO's to "give back" to their community, which they also claim on their taxes as a donation.
The artist posted it? Well lemmy play my "art is interpreted by the viewer" card then.
Otherwise, 🤷♂️
The OP is not the artist, but they linked the source site for the comic which uses the same title.
This, they only tell you "Oh Gates dropped out and he became the richest man!"
In order to instill you with the idea that the rich are great men who can do the impossible and get good results...
They keep quiet that he dropped out of Harvard and his Mother gave him a contract because she owned IBM.
What is the interpretation of the people that think it is tax related?
Not even fair there tho, in nature predators maintain a stable environment by regulating prey populations to sustainable sizes.
An equivalent under capitalism would be stronger anti-monopoly law and laws imposing heavy regulation on businesses above a given size within their respective markets.
A big hunter that keeps grazers at a size that doesn't allow them to begin just eating everything and starving everyone else out while depleting the resource well for all.
ah yes, refuse to fund the schools with taxes and let the religious institutions do it. This is why Americans are generally thought of as 'well-educated' on the world stage.
.../s
the lions here aren't the government they're corporations
its funny how it works both ways. I could easily see this comic on an right-wing facebook page in the USA in favor of 'school vouchers'
That it happens is indisputable.
Some people just think the message "don't genocide your neighbors" is the problem instead of "the system works and isn't designed to take advantage of you."
Americans are nowhere near the top anymore, on any recent metric I’ve heard.
That’s because you have to use imperial to measure American success ;)
That's just asking for the 'American imperialists' crowd to show up
It's not imperialism because we're a republic.
Now do what we say or get couped.
They're not first in school shootings?
“We have the most perfect school shootings.”
—Trump, probably
…/s
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how did you get a third hand
I'm sure this is going to be a level headed rational discussion about taxes by all the knowledgeable skilled tax professionals in lemmy.
I glossed over the tax implications and went straight to the indoctrination of the masses into the ideals of capitalism
I mean on one hand I agree with you. But on the other I don't think you need to be a "tax professional" to have a valid opinion on taxes.
Like I'm sure you express opinions you are not a leafing expert on right?
I'm surprised you think it's the tax deductions that are the issue here.
One of the first things to do with complex and nuanced topics is to express them in comics.
Be warned to anyone who might go check this out.
This is a #VERY NSFW comic.
And a fantastic one at that
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What is this Libertarian bullshit doing here?
"corporations shouldn't be allowed to have influence over what content is taught in schools" is "libertarian bullshit"?
Corporations collect taxes?
No but they "donate to their local community" to get tax deductions / write offs
Let me ask you something: Do you think that when corps donate, they get MORE in tax savings than they put in for donations?
For the most part people don't understand tax deductions and how they work, but this is true in the case of "donations in kind" of assets that are either overvalued or were going to be disposed of anyways.
The ideal charitable donation disposes of something you were going to have to pay to get rid of, generates a tax deduction, and makes you look good at the same time.
Perfect example is bogus environmental projects like building a reef out of old tires. It's win/win/win until everyone finds out that something in the tires actually kills fish
Yeah they send old medicines to Africa too, some poor hospital on Kenya gets 100,000 expired doses of a medicine they don't even need if they could use it and then they have to pay to dispose of it while the company saves that fee and gets a tax write off
no obviously not that's not how tax deductions work
similarly to how i'm against corporations being able to donate to politicians, i'd be against corporations being able to donate in such a way that they could influence the school syllabus even if it literally cost them more than the recipient got
Where did it mention taxes?
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