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At least they have donated $10 million to the fund.
Your point? Would you donate half of everything you own or all of it? Probably not. At least they're helping.
People complaining about rich people not donating more are hypocrites, cause I don't see any of you donating too or donating the percentage of what you earn/ have in the bank that you think they should be donating.
If they donate half of what they own they would have more money than they and their family and their ancestors could ever spend. If i donate half my money, i can't pay rent anymore.
What a silly argument. I guess next week they can donate the other half of their wealth for the next disaster and just be a broke poster on lemmy, eh?
Let’s see the receipt for your donation of .03 of your net worth, then?
Wanna see mine? I don’t have one, but I’m not sitting here complaining about people who donated 10M, either.
Boot taste good?
I sent in a nickel, so Oprah and I are in the same level now with philanthropy.
I have a negative bank balance so I guess they owe me money???
You're welcome for my donation.
I am barely surviving.
I feel you. Me too.
That's why it's good that people are donating to funds like these. Celebs donate big amounts. Even if it's less that 1% of their worth. Who cares? It's 10mil, that's a lot of money and can do a lot of good.
My point was, I notice the people who screech about celebs not donating enough either don't donate themselves or wouldn't even consider donating the percentage of their money that they feel these people should be donating. It's hypocritical.
The rock is a good person, he's worked to get where he is. He's entitled to his money just like every other Tom, dick and harry is.
As much as I dislike shitty rich people, looking at you Elon, it's still their money. And if we screech about how they should spend their money, it's only fair that we can then be told how to use ours too. Would it be nice if people like him used money for good, yes of course. But end of the day, it's their money to do with as they choose. And even a donation that isn't huge to them, is huge to others in need. So it shouldn't be complained about. It should be seen as good.
It's simple: I also worked where I am (arguably harder than a movie star) and I don't have a fucking mansion and 10 million to throw at charities.
It's not fair so don't expect us to treat them fairly.
If you think making movies is so easy, then go and do it.
If it's way easier than what you do then it shouldn't be that difficult right?
Oh ffs you know what I mean, stop that.
You can't force people to learn.
All we can do it try.
Hope y'all have a great day!
Please stop mocking the rock. for the love of Pete and everything that is holy, please leave the fact he makes more on a single movie than most of the small towns and villages of the area are worth. Oh please stop mocking the rich and super well off whoa are asking everyone to give money they could give themselves in, but only want to give so much.
How is rock going to be rich if he's just helping useless assholes who can't afford to help themselves?
you probably don't even give when wal mart tells you to.
We are told how to use our money. That's what taxes are.
You have fallen for wealthy classes trap.
Hope you keep learning!
"Problem 1: Never trust a billionaire. Problem 2: When a billionaire starts a fund, DON'T GIVE THEM MONEY. Problem 3: How do you think a billionaire becomes a billionaire?
Thank you Sabby for exposing these rich frauds.
DON'T GIVE THESE PEOPLE ANYTHING"
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This is the trap of marketing and communication. They donate for the image, to hide the image of the rich disconnected from the reality of the poorer.
I'm all for the rich to contribute to pay and help the people, but not through charity. The rich must be taxed, and these taxes serves to help with government jobs, so everyone has a word to say. With taxes, we help the poorer, we help in case of natural disasters, we found the researches, we give access to healthcare, we... With charity, we help the riches to keep an oppressive system of power over the poorest. It's a system to keep the huge gap between rich and poor.
I donate 10% of my income every month, which is as much as I can and also 33.3x more than 0.3%. Don't paint everyone with the same brush, especially not to defend the haves from the have-nots.
Church tithing doesn't count as donating to charity, IMHO.
I agree. I don't go to church. I donate to a children's hospital in my city.
half > 0.3%
Yet more proof that the only people who defend billionaires are billionaires and people that can't do math.
They're giving the equivalent of 150$ for someone who make 50k/year... In isolation I would say that yes many people donate a higher % of their income.
Realistically, it's one of many causes they donate to.
Hell if you've given your pocket change to a panhandler in the last few years you're probably being more generous, comparatively
While I think every little helps, if everybody they ask to donate would donate that much they probably still would be around 10 mil
I mean if you have a car then 0.3% of your net worth is probably at least $1
If you don't want to donate $1 because you think someone else should be donating more then you're worse than them
I'm not saying you should, just that if you don't you shouldn't judge them
Pocket change to them, while they maintain the system that ensures that some people have to rely on charity in the first place while they hoard millions if not billions.
Don't play along
I copy paste one of my comments about charity:
It creates a subordination to the rich. The poor will be dependant of the charity to live.
The charities should not exist at all. It's neoliberal to privatize everything so the state is smaller and smaller and create a direct control of the masses by the rich. This system is even more perverse. The rich can make the own rules and own regulations to give even more control on the poorer.
The work done by the charity must be done by the state itself with it's own employees. It finances these programs through the taxes and regulations. The state must be strong. You have your word here what's not the case with charity.
The best thing is to remunerate the work at its fair value. The workers thus recover the majority of the money earned by the company. This also solves the problem of profits and dividends.They are used to pay workers properly, which is not the case today.
If you don't know how the wealthy class use non-profits and other "philanthropy" to funnel money, here is a clip below that explains.
Oprah's Maui Fund QUESTIONED (clip)
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They pledged $10 million. Which means that they just will pay whatever people paid. Not their money.
I don't think that's how it works