A Boring Dystopia

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Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by RainfallSonata@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] gorlak@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ve had this idea kicking around in my head for a few years: Christian Chicken Offset Charity. It would be an app that would notify you “You appear to be patronizng a bigoted establishment, do you wish to make a $1 donation to Charity X to offset?”

Could work for Hobby Lobby, In ‘n Out, etc, too.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It would be so much easier to just not shop at those places.

[–] vind@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

But if you didn't know about it in advance, that system would be useful

[–] gorlak@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I don’t disagree, but:

People are weak when it comes to comfort food
Having this would create dialog about the problem at hand
Propping up a successful charity like this might cause corporate to question its policy, whereas a boycott results in hard to measure fiscal impact.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This isn't how reality works. Offset is basically babble. What actually happens is company A does something actually harmful like poison the environment, pave some wetlands, burn down the forest and plant corn and then your offset goes to pay people with masters degrees to THINK about what they might do about assholes ruining the world.

On net assholes with masters degrees have houses in the burbs and the fucking damage is still done. If you want to offset harm you actually have to decrease harm not pretend to be offsetting it.