A Boring Dystopia

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Self-Checkout Machines asking for a Tip (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a fucking insult

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Even if it isn't an obvious shady thing with the money not getting donated, even if it's all "above board" as these things go, when you make a donation at a retail checkout counter the store then donates the money in their own corporate name and gets the tax breaks, good press, and so forth.

I prefer to make my donations directly to charities rather than subsidizing some middleman company's good karma.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'll drink to that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the store then donates the money in their own corporate name and gets the tax breaks, good press, and so forth.

Oh, hell I'd never thought of this but it makes perfect sense. I already didn't donate via checkout, but now I never will. Fuck that.