• w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    And they get credit for donating even tho it was actually their customers.

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      2 hours ago

      They do not get credit for facilitating your donation. This is a misunderstanding of how donating works based on when I looked it up after saying the same thing. They do it mainly to virtue signal. Either way I share the sentiment of the post.

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      2 hours ago

      In many cases they also cause the child hunger by paying their employees a wage so low that food assistance is required.

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      If only in the form of a tax break. You’re literally donating to the company asking for the cash.