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MacKenzie Scott donates $640M -- more than double her initial plan -- to nonprofits
(abcnews.go.com)
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Sadly, I suspect some assholes will be along any moment to tell us all about how evil she is and how she's infecting kids with 5g or some such.
Billionaire philanthropy is undemocratic and governments just need to tax better and put that GDP towards things we prioritize together as nations
But where will we get the classic "Billionaire saves orphans from orphan crushing machine" that never follows up on who built the orphan crushing machine?
Instead we'd just get the classic news headline "Imagine the worst person you can, we found that guy and he's getting free money from the government welfare program" Which I would add barely happens to most CEOs and billionaires today (they do own most the press, after all)
She's quite literally the opposite of those evil billionaires. She's a shining example that should be praised and used as a model.
"But billionnaire bad cause has the money!" is how people typically respond. I don't even think being able to get billions is bad. The number itself is whatever. Actions are what's important. A handful of the whatever-naires aren't steaming piles of ass, so we should support them.
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