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[-] Juice@midwest.social 6 points 41 minutes ago

Sending that much money to a two year old doesn't make sense. They literally have no concept of money or social responsibility. Why send money when the kid clearly needs a Dr.

/s

Charity from billionaires always looks so fake. Just send it anonymously. Otherwise its just a publicity stunt.

If her entire fortune was $100000 she would have given $6.25. A handful of pocket change and a fiver. Yet I don't get articles by the independent written about me when I give an unhoused veteran a $20

I'm glad that someone in her position did less than the absolute bare minimum to help that child's family. What a moving gesture.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

She's a billionaire, so for comparison, this is akin to someone who's net worth is 100k, donating 10 Eur. Hardly something worth writing puff articles about.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 2 points 41 minutes ago

She's worth 1.6 billion so its actually less

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago

She could do so much good but instead she does this for the glam and fame. I don't care what anyone says, all billionaires are bad. There's no good billionaire.

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Imagine what she could do for cancer with the rest of that billion.

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 38 points 5 hours ago
[-] Godric@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Well that's nice! Time to read the comments that I predict will be nothing but whineing about it!

[-] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 125 points 9 hours ago

If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago

If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare

And if we had representatives that would vote to use that money for healthcare instead of using it on the military or a new ball room and instead line their pockets with lobbyist ~~bribes~~ donations.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Don't yall already spend more per capita for health care than the developed nations? I'm not saying don't tax the fuck outta billionaires, but the USA should already have a single payer Healthcare system

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

We're both self defeating and stupid. Also, we don't feel that our nation should work to our benefit. It's really a long term 1D chess strat to die early because our nation is a hellhole of our own devising.

Oh, but we also are basically poor while we do it. We're #1! {According to us}

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, but if you weren't poor who would be a billionaire? Gotta have them...for reasons...

[-] Soulg@ani.social 6 points 6 hours ago

Yes we should but some people would make less money that way, can't have that

[-] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I was sad to see this wasn’t the top comment.

Edit: I’m happy now.

[-] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

It is now if that helps brighten your day.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 62 points 8 hours ago

Meanwhile, in other countries, two year olds don’t need the permission of billionaires to survive.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 30 points 7 hours ago

Still don't care that a billionaire is doing "charitable works". It's wrong that anyone has to depend on the graces of the wealthy to notice a go fund me to afford healthcare.

[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 64 points 10 hours ago

singer quietly donated the sum to the two-year-old girl...

Yeah quietly enough so articles are written about it

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 9 points 9 hours ago

I know, although tbf she kept quiet when she reached out to the families of the little girls murdered in Merseyside

[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 22 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You know about it, so it wasn't quiet.

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 4 points 5 hours ago

It really was and it was released by a families social media not her.

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

If she's go great, where are the scholarships, hospitals, schools, grants, etc that can help the masses? She could fund so much! Start resources for underserved students and communities. We have a social obligation to our fellow humans. Why? Because we decided to form and live in societies. We wouldn't live together if we all believed it was every man for himself. If I pay so many taxes that I need to live paycheck to paycheck, then people making more need to pay more taxes. Don't tell me they earned it and deserve the billions. You have no idea how much value I create for my employer. I deserve to have basic necessities met without going into debt.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 28 points 9 hours ago

Donating that same money to cancer research will save dozens if not hundreds of less photogenic lives, young and old.

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 7 points 9 hours ago

Considering the health care costs in USA, how many months does 100,000 buy if you’re not 100% covered by insurance?

[-] DoctorNope@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Here's an example. One of the pills my wife took for several years to treat her breast cancer cost $16330.08 per month. Another was $15280 per month. So $100k would've lasted her about 6 months (she took one drug, then switched to the other). This of course doesn't include the chemo given by injection, the medications she took to combat all the side effects from that, the radiation therapy, mastectomy, reconstructive surgery...

But if you'll let me opine for a minute here, $100k from Taylor Swift is an insult. Just as a goof, let's reframe this from Taylor's perspective. She flies around in a Dassault Falcon 7X. This plane has a fuel capacity of about 32,000lbs, which at 6.75lb/gal and a nationwide-average Jet-A price of $6.28/gal today, costs about $29770 to fill. So it's about 3 1/3 tanks of gas for her plane. Apparently a child's life is worth about as much to her as not having to fly commercial a couple times.

But it's even more ridiculous than that, because Taylor Swift is worth $1.6 billion. $100k is a smaller chunk of her net worth than a single fucking Big Mac is to the average American. Don't go to McDonald's. Eat the rich instead.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 15 points 9 hours ago

Like 3 days worth of cancer treatment.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 hours ago

When is she going to deny being a white supremacist rather than suing the people reporting her ties to them?

Also this is like 20 bucks to her.

[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 hours ago

Her net worth acorting to Forbes is $1.6B

Acorting to the article she donates $100k. Meaning 0.0000625% of her new worth.

The typical American household according to this article is $193,000

So donation of the same proportion would be $12.0625. This is just laughable. I have tipped higher amount.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

I am impressed that I wasnt off by an order of magnitude with my quick brain guesstimations. I was going to say $10, but that seemed a bit too low.

[-] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

You know this is 100% a way to distract from the lightning bolt necklace debacle.

[-] affenlehrer@feddit.org 7 points 8 hours ago

I hope the child makes it. Besides that I wonder if 2 million actually help. Is this kind of cancer "solved" but treatment "just" expensive? If that's the case it's a shame it's so expensive. If it's not solved, can 2 million solve it?

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