If i was a business owner, the last thing I'd want to do is spend money improving the community/world. Imo taxes more than cover that.
The big benefit of spending money on social ventures is your company looks like it gives a shit about others and that is good for the reputation.
But do business owners really care or are their expenditures only for increasing their reputation?
Instead of spending a billion on charity why not give it to your employees?
>>3418035
no they dont. they just want tax exemptions
>>3418035
>Grouping every single business under the word "Businesses"
>Do businesses really care?
>Why are all humans black?
>Are all people really criminals?
>Why dont politicians read books?
>>3418035
Taxation dis-incentivizes private charity. With lower taxes, the incentive would be more business. Looks good to the community if you help, whether it's because you're truly concerned or not.
>>3418035
99% of the time, no they don't care, it's just PR and cheap advertisement, it's only when the CEO/main shareholder is actually passionate about the cause that you can see legit philantropy/patronage.
>>3418069
>>3418279
This.
If I were rich, however, I would attack the education system. Couple ways of doings this:
1.) Find current teachers higher paying jobs, with their credentials to get them to leave the teaching profession.
2.) Start an aggressive campaign for students in high school urging them to never pursue a degree in education. Forcing enrollment numbers to drop in education departments.
3.) Start another aggressive campaign to urge current professionals to never become a teacher or professor.
4.) Start another aggressive campaign to put blame on teachers to a much higher degree and force more "assessments and accountability" and ensuring it becomes a job no one ever wants.
5.) Collect tax benefits for starting a charity to help high school students and adults find careers outside of education.
6.) Watch an entire generation of students get dumber and dumber, as the state made them victims of their own laws which says they are required to go to school. Hire these students as cheap labor to my business, because they will be products of a useless educational system starved of its most precious resource; the teacher.
This is what I would do.
a business is not a person, it cannot "care"... it is an institution... however due to pervasive concepts such as corporate social responsibility, many businesses act in the benefit of all their stakeholders because benefiting society can help them benefit themselves