The Auron MacIntyre Show - The BIG Problem with Regime Charity ｜ 3⧸28⧸24

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00:00:30.500 Mackenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,

00:00:42.120 recently announced her intention to engage in another round of philanthropy

00:00:45.860 by donating $640 million to charity.

00:00:50.440 Of the $60 billion she received after splitting with her husband,

00:00:54.900 Scott has already given over $16 billion to various non-profit organizations.

00:01:02.140 To most people, the idea of possessing, much less donating, that kind of money is unthinkable,

00:01:08.460 and Scott is certainly distributing the funds with the intention of making the world a better place.

00:01:13.660 The big problem is with the kind of world that the organizations Scott supports are trying to build.

00:01:22.160 The billionaire divorcee is steadily feeding a giant stream of cash into the progressive non-profit complex, 1.00

00:01:30.660 ensuring that that money funds highly influential organizations that will shape opinion and policy in the United States.

00:01:38.820 Charity isn't a universal value throughout history,

00:01:43.440 and the idea of giving to those outside your kin is mostly a Christian one.

00:01:48.740 Other religions, such as Islam, do encourage giving to the poor, 1.00

00:01:52.840 but in the West that tradition is not linked to ancient Greece or Rome, but to the teachings of Christ.

00:02:00.600 At one point, charity was a personal affair.

00:02:03.280 You gave directly to those in need or to an organization in which you were an active participant like a church.

00:02:10.220 The gift was particular to your community, and you knew the people that it helped.

00:02:14.560 But as society expanded and became more homogenized,

00:02:20.200 this work was mostly handed over to large bureaucracies

00:02:24.320 that were no longer accountable to specific individuals or communities.

00:02:30.400 People who wanted to feel good about fulfilling the Christian impulse for charitable giving,

00:02:36.540 but couldn't be bothered to participate in an actual community with those in need,

00:02:41.460 could instead donate to a third party that would touch the unclean for them.

00:02:47.880 This separation between the giver, the organization, and the community it served

00:02:53.780 introduced the principal agent problem.

00:02:57.300 The principal agent problem arises because whenever a separate agent or group of agents

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00:03:23.020 you have a principal agent problem.

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00:03:55.620 And the more levels of abstraction, the more layers of bureaucracy and managers you have,

00:04:01.260 the more distorted the incentives get, and the worse the problem becomes.

00:04:06.320 Anyone who's attempted to resolve a problem with a large corporation

00:04:09.760 by calling its customer service center recognizes this phenomenon.

00:04:14.840 As the number of bureaucratic layers increase,

00:04:17.620 the ability to hold individual actors accountable and achieve results goes down.

00:04:22.820 Due to the residual Christian ethos of our society, 0.99

00:04:28.420 charitable organizations are often treated as highly moral enterprises,

00:04:33.240 which gives them a great deal of social and financial capital.

00:04:37.460 And without direct individual or community accountability,

00:04:41.300 the power stored in these organizations was up for grabs.

00:04:45.720 The intermediaries managing these organizations

00:04:49.100 became less and less interested in the stated purpose of the institutions

00:04:53.940 and instead became obsessed with growing the power and size of the charity,

00:04:58.820 which in turn increased their own power and importance.

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00:06:27.760 The best way for these managers to grow their prestige and influence

00:06:32.120 was to align themselves with the direction of the political zeitgeist.

00:06:37.100 Adopting progressive political agendas allowed individual managers

00:06:41.340 the ability to outflank their internecine rivals in the battle for power

00:06:46.460 and make their organizations into critical nodes in the wider regime.

00:06:51.840 By linking themselves to the state,

00:06:54.020 charities could become large beneficiaries of taxpayer funds

00:06:57.880 when their allies were in political office

00:07:00.240 and havens for personnel and policy when their enemies won elections.

00:07:04.720 Many conservatives have noticed that even when progressives are voted out of office,

00:07:10.060 their agenda continues to advance itself.

00:07:13.160 This is because critical organizations like non-profits and universities,

00:07:17.620 which the government has incorporated into its process

00:07:20.260 and now relies on to function,

00:07:22.440 remain in leftist hands.

00:07:24.860 Many on the right now refer to the unelected federal bureaucracy

00:07:29.060 as the deep state,

00:07:30.940 but the network of progressive power

00:07:32.680 extends well outside the three branches of government.

00:07:36.780 One of the advantages of these extra-governmental power centers

00:07:40.800 is that the non-profits can wield their power

00:07:43.740 to circumvent constitutional restrictions

00:07:46.120 that only apply to formal government branches.

00:07:50.380 As an example,

00:07:51.600 when their friends in government needed to push for censorship

00:07:55.060 of conservatives on social media

00:07:57.320 but were restricted by the First Amendment,

00:08:00.120 progressive allies could instead funnel massive amounts of money

00:08:03.760 into non-profit groups,

00:08:05.720 which could apply the pressure on their behalf,

00:08:08.500 all while maintaining the moral shield of being a charity.

00:08:13.740 This is why non-profit charities became an integral part of the regime

00:08:18.660 while maintaining the moral and legal protections their status afforded.

00:08:23.460 The artificial separation of the public and private sectors

00:08:27.740 that has been erected in the American consciousness

00:08:30.580 also allowed them to act as an arm of the state

00:08:34.060 without constitutional restrictions.

00:08:37.820 This is how the total state is born.

00:08:41.480 Managers assemble power across public and private institutions,

00:08:46.120 which they network to circumvent the ideas

00:08:49.040 of limited government and checks and balances.

00:08:51.700 The personal becomes the political

00:08:54.360 because every institution is actually a vehicle for state power.

00:09:00.680 So when you see Mackenzie Scott donate $16 billion,

00:09:05.640 she's not just giving it to the needy. 0.96

00:09:08.460 She's giving it to the regime.

00:09:10.860 She's pledging her support for the total state.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - March 28, 2024

The BIG Problem with Regime Charity ｜ 3⧸28⧸24

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