The rich, religion, and the Right

Flint Michigan still doesn't have clean water, this is a failure on many levels as well as a pretty good example of why we shouldn't rely on charity to fix problems.

I will elaborate, part of the Libertarian philosophy that is shared by virtually every faction found on the Right of the aisle, is that government interference is bad right? The private sector, if completely unregulated, will end up self regulating more efficiently and productively than anything the government could do. This is patently, provably false, and insane, but there we are. The point is, when confronted with things the government does now that private companies don't do, such as disaster recovery, to name an example taken completely at random, followers of this philosophy (such as it is) suggest that charitable organizations or private citizens will step in to do this out of the goodness of their hearts. Churches are also listed as a source of help as well.

So the case of Flint, where the government seems to be going out of its way to not interfere, should be a good test bed for that idea, and yet it still doesn't have clean water. Charitable organizations are certainly working there, but lack the resources to actually fix the problems, I am sure there are some religious organizations working in the area too. But where is the private sector? Where is the billionaire offering to pay for the installation of new pipes? It isn't like America is short on billionaires, and don't give me any of that shit about the government not letting them help, if our recent presidential election is anything to go buy, you can literally do anything you want if you have enough money. It is clear to me that none of them want to.

We have hundreds of citizens who have the means to fix almost any issue you can think of simply by throwing money at the problem, yet they don't. I am sure there are regulations that make it difficult for a private citizen to effectively take over a problem that is in the governments domain to fix, but that isn't actually a good reason why they don't, I mean, there are all kinds of regulations that are supposed to protect the economy from abuse by banks, or the environment from manufacturing, or whatever, but those are routinely fought against, generally successfully these days, are you trying to tell me that only in situations that mean the rich person would actually spend money are those regulations an insurmountable obstacle?

No the answer is the super rich have no motivation or desire to fix the worlds problems, not truly, the best we can hope for is they set up a foundation or some shit to convince other people to support their causes.

Same goes for religions, there are megachurches out there with the cash to make a real difference in many areas should they choose to, but they don't, again limiting themselves to small scale charitable works, ones which expose those who seek their services to their conversion efforts, for the most part their charitable works are little more than tax free advertising. And sure, this stuff makes a difference for those who manage to take advantage of their services, but it doesn't actually fix anything.

Those same churches overwhelmingly support candidates like The Toddler as well, so fuck em.

"But Logan!" you argue "You can't expect private individuals to fix problems like that! It is their money after all, they earned it!"

A. No they fucking didn't for the most part.
B. Why can't I expect that? Their own philosophy says that I should, either the free market comes up with an affordable solution, or charitably inclined individuals help out of the goodness of their hearts.

But it doesn't, and they don't, because there is very little goodness in their hearts, and the free market is perhaps the worst expression of capitalism possible.

There is no incentive for non-governmental agencies to be nice, to be generous, to care for the less fortunate. There is no return on investment, nothing to be gained save for a temporary surge of public goodwill. You know what does, or should, have incentive to fix problems like Flint? The government! That is what it is for! It protects its citizens or it doesn't deserve to exist.

Well, it isn't doing that either I guess. So we are failed by every part of society that has the means to fix problems like Flint.

I don't know how to end this, people like to say money can't fix everything, and perhaps on the scale of relationship issues that might be true, but outside of that money fixes an awful lot, and nobody with money seems to be interested in fixing anything.