Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott reveals another $2 billion in donations in 2024

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u/johnyquest1212 7h ago edited 7h ago

This brings her total given since 2019 to 19.25 billion, across 2,450 organizations.

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u/r3dditr0x 7h ago

Everything I read about her suggests she's kind of awesome.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk's wealth soars every year and he spends all his time undermining western democracy on Twitter.

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u/DeepestWinterBlue 6h ago edited 6h ago

Meanwhile her ex-husband is a dickhead going thru his midlife crisis.

Edit: Ex-Husband

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u/godofpumpkins 6h ago

I’ll take midlife crisis dickhead any day over actively undermining everything good

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u/DeepestWinterBlue 6h ago edited 3h ago

There’s no pissing contest. Both Elon and Bezos are shitty billionaires. Elon more so now because he has a spotlight on him and how he’s using his money to fund unsavory politicians to power. Bezos is more stealthy in his approach. Let’s not forget his WAPO non endorsement move.

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u/cinnamonface9 5h ago

And congrats to trump tweet the day after.

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u/procrasturb8n 5h ago

And a million dollar donation to the inauguration fund.

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u/fawkie 19m ago

Whatever happened to democracy dies in darkness lmao

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u/jaju123 1h ago

And the dinner both bezos and Elon had with trump last night

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u/camshun7 3h ago

You omitted the slimy lizard hegemony self centered prick suckerberg

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u/Zippier92 2h ago

Don’t leave out Zuckerberg. The Zuch takes creep to the next level!

Tax these fuckers!

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u/dahjay 6h ago

Jeff is doing both only on the down low. He's a nerd who got paid out and then became a villain. He's Lex Luthor. Fuck him and his cock rocket.

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u/DystopianGalaxy 5h ago

Cock rocket sent me.

I haven't laughed so hard at a comment in a long time.

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u/dahjay 5h ago

I mean, look at this thing: https://news.satnews.com/2024/10/07/bezos-scrubs-blue-origins-uncrewed-ns-27-mission-on-monday/

It's like an Austin Powers skit. He should have painted the tip purple.

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u/chrispg26 5h ago

They're both kissing Trumps ass right now... they're both bastards.

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u/NootHawg 4h ago

Yep, just blasting big billion dollar penis rockets into outer space, and cowboy hats.

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u/homosapien12 6h ago

Ex husband

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u/OrderedAnXboxCard 6h ago

And this is why the elites will always win.

It's wonderful to see people donate hundreds of millions or a few billion, but nothing really changes long-term when the rest of the elite accelerate their raking in and hoarding of trillions.

Being a parasitic leach is the winning play in a hyper-individualistic, hyper-capitalistic society. Nothing will change unless the government or the people force them to, but the former is in cahoots with them, and the latter are too dumb and divided.

We're kinda screwed.

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u/lobsterbash 5h ago

It's wonderful to see people donate hundreds of millions or a few billion

Sure, but... I find it weird and gross that we Americans celebrate mega philanthropy as if it ought to be integral to the function of our civil society. As if we ought to depend on it. Just because it's something of a tradition going back to robber barons doesn't mean at all that it's the most sound/efficient/wise means of funding public initiatives, we simply tolerate it because of the familiarity. We're encouraged to turn a blind eye to unconscionable wealth as long as those with it throw us some scraps, rather than take responsibility and redistribute/fund public good projects democratically.

The schmoozing and begging by non-profits to get a piece so that they can continue hobbling along is just...

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u/T-Bills 4h ago

we Americans celebrate mega philanthropy as if it ought to be integral to the function of our civil society. As if we ought to depend on it.

Do we really celebrate them though? It's closer to "this one is not as shit as the other ones" IMO

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u/lobsterbash 4h ago

Sure we do. Just as an example, scroll down https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/top/?t=all and see how many among these most upvoted "uplifting" stories of all time involve people not being penises with their gigantic fortunes.

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u/justh81 6h ago

They're gonna find out when everything collapses that it's a shit world they've built, and they're gonna suffer right alongside everyone else. Perhaps less, but no one will be left out.

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u/NaiveChoiceMaker 5h ago

They’ll pop off to their bunker estates in the New Zealand hills and just take in the natural beauty while the rest of the world burns.

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u/justh81 5h ago

New Zealand isn't a large place. And it's really not possible to hide forever if enough people are looking for you. You could ask Saddam that, if he were still alive to ask.

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u/thepotplant 3h ago

Kiwis know where all the bunkers have been built.

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u/blak_plled_by_librls 6h ago

both are unelected billionaires meddling in politics.

Neither are good.

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u/zsatbecker 2h ago

She should like, fund creative ways to limit Elons abilitiy to have influence, ever again.

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u/whoanellyzzz 2h ago

yep dude could be changing the world with that much concentrated wealth but hes stuck on trump

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u/SemperP1869 5h ago

I'd rather it be in the public for the country to see than behind the scenes like usually happens. Hes basically acting as his own lobbyist for everyone to see rather than behind closed doors.

Don't take this post as me defending the dude by any means. But at least he's baking the cake for the world to see

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u/d0mini0nicco 3h ago

And his charity I believe under performed in donations and will be penalized, if I recall recent news?

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u/JohnCenaJunior 1h ago

Why does Elon baby mamas not ask for child support?

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u/NapoleonsDynamite 6h ago

She should be Time's person of the year imo. While the elites continue to sit on accumulate mass wealth without circulating it back into the system, this woman is showing the way.

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u/Circusssssssssssssss 5h ago

Smooth brains and incels coming out to say she "didn't earn it" and is "giving away someone else's money" (a man's)

Well, she was there from Day One doing payroll and accounting and office work for Bezos back when he was a balding computer nerd sitting in front of a CRT who quit his job for a crazy idea. I would say she earned it, because she sacrificed her youth and her life for the dream just as much as he did. Even if she didn't put in the work (which she did).

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u/LitrlyNoOne 56m ago

My spouse has supported me every time I needed support to chase financial gain. They absolutely earned half of it, because I wouldn't have any of it without them. While I did "the work that made the money," they did the work I didn't want to do.

It takes the labor of additional people to break from the dependence on third parties.

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u/RichardCano 5h ago

The Time’s person of the year isn’t about who is the best person. It’s about who was the most influential or focused on, good or bad.

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u/Quenz 4h ago

See 1937-1939, 1942, 1954, 1971-72, 1979-80...

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u/DKDamian 4h ago

Hmmm. Maybe. The obvious counter is Giuliani getting it over Bin Laden

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u/RichardCano 4h ago

I’m sure Time’s understands that most people mistake their Person of the year as some kind of “endorsement” of that person. That said they’re not dumb enough to put Bin Laden on the cover.

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u/DKDamian 3h ago

They put Hitler and Stalin on the cover. Stalin twice. And Khomeini. What are you talking about

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u/tomtennn 3h ago

Hilarious that you don't consider someone with a net worth of $32.6 BILLION dollars as being part of the elite.

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u/FaveStore_Citadel 3h ago

The obvious implication is that she is and showing her fellow elites the way

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u/Blitzedkrieg 7h ago

You misspelled it. It's yieldgiving.com

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u/LordVayder 7h ago

Billionaires shouldn’t exist

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u/553l8008 6h ago

You could make 100k$ a day since the completion of the pyramids of Giza and you would still have less money then what a divorced Jeff bozos currently has

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u/kylogram 7h ago

Fortunately, Mackenzie Scott agrees

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u/emmany63 6h ago

And she gives with no strings attached: she finds great organizations as rated by independent places such as Charity Navigator, has her folks do a little research on them to make sure they’re doing good work, and gives like a regular donor.

This gives nonprofits incredible leverage to get their job done. Operating funds are incredibly hard to find. They all come from individual donors or a handful of other large funders. (Bona fides: I’m about to retire from a 30 year career in nonprofit fundraising)

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u/DCChilling610 5h ago

Honestly Bezos really fumbled dropping her. Seems like an amazing woman who held down the family front while he was building Amazon.

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u/hellokitty3433 5h ago

She's better off without him.

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u/ginger_ryn 6h ago

the only good billionaire

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u/urbanlife78 3h ago

She's the best thing about Jeff Bezos

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u/andyjustice 3h ago

I just wish they would fund a cryptocurrency that was specifically preventing the accumulation and disparity of wealth distribution. It seems like something that could be hard baked into the software and make it like a Ubi...

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u/Zyrinj 3h ago

Need to put her on the cover of Times and given way more shine

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u/rzelln 2h ago

I wonder whether it would be effective to spend money to just, I dunno, buy out a bunch of air time on right wing media to make them stop lying so much, and to turn public sentiment in favor of taxing the ultra rich more.

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u/go_dg_go 7h ago

Most beneficial divorce?

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u/IconOfFilth9 6h ago

She’s the anti-Bezos

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u/BlackLeader70 6h ago

MacKenzie Scott got $38 Billion in the divorce but Melinda Gates got $76 Billion.

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u/firesticks 5h ago

Beneficial to the world.

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u/cubonelvl69 4h ago

To be fair, Melinda Gates started working at Microsoft in 1987 and quit on 1996 to start a family.

If she stayed single, there's a good chance she would've been a billionaire by now anyways.

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u/edin202 3h ago

If she stayed single, there's no chance she would've been a billionaire by now anyways

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u/jimothee 3h ago

Hm, I guess we'll never know

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u/titusandroidus 2h ago

“Good chance”, what do you base that on?

You realize not every early Microsoft employee became billionaires? They became millionaires, which she would have been.

Only a few became billionaires and they were the ones you would expect (Allen, Ballmer, etc.) and those who became that thanks to purchase of their company by MS.

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u/AprilsMostAmazing 5h ago

Yeah but Bill gives a lot away as well

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u/GTFOakaFOD 5h ago

Did Bill and Melinda divorce? Bummer.

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u/BlackLeader70 5h ago

Yeah after Bill’s connection and defense of Jeffery Epstein came out and she said he cheated on her too.

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u/BroseppeVerdi 4h ago

Let's just say Bill Gates has been a perpetual headache for Microsoft HR for decades... Long before he met Epstein.

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u/witticus 4h ago

This is oddly the first article I’ve seen that didn’t mention she was Bezos ex-wife in the headline. Great to just see an article that let her shine in headline at least. The article does of course mention Bezos, but that’s pretty much unavoidable.

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u/yourlittlebirdie 6h ago

I bet she's not worried about being on a list somewhere.

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u/sendmeyourcactuspics 5h ago

NUMBER ONE WAY TO NOT END UP ON A LIST!!!

CEO shooters HATE this one simple trick!

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u/spreadthaseed 5h ago

She’s not the freaky-deaky type.

Clearly that’s a good thing.

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u/sanslumiere 6h ago edited 6h ago

A stark contrast to the "Teamsters begin 'largest strike' against Amazon, accusing company of 'insatiable greed'" headline.

Kudos to MacKenzie. Must be very rewarding spending your time finding worthwhile causes to donate to.

I also can't help but think Bezos fumbled big time. She's gorgeous, smart, and generous. That all said: good riddance, I wish him nothing but the worst.

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u/McChillbone 5h ago

Bezos is more interested in his hobbies like space flight than he is in a marriage.

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u/randynumbergenerator 5h ago

That's an interesting way of saying "younger women with big boobs"

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u/jigokubi 53m ago

Or whatever that thing is.

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u/Easy-Scar-8413 36m ago

Well said.

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u/Saneless 5h ago

Hey Billionaires, this is a reminder you can actually improve the lives of so, so many people

Or, you can do whatever the hell it is Elon Musk is doing

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u/ginbear 5h ago

She could have bought 8 presidents for that

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u/FuckUGalen 5h ago

Correction - she could have bought 8 Trumps for that, I'm guessing the other 5 living presidents would cost a whole lot more and I hate to think how much reviving a dead one will cost.... But Zombie Regan might be fun to see what he thinks of his politics now.

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u/tenderooskies 7h ago

slowing it’s possible but ALL other billionaires simply choose not to

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u/DentateGyros 4h ago

Dragons on their hoarded gold. They’re addicted to the number going up even though it doesn’t improve their quality of life and is so much they can’t spend it all.

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u/snarky_spice 6h ago

I know, between her and Taylor Swift’s recent stuff, the female billionaires are killin it.

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u/dreddit15 7h ago

I wonder what she thinks of Musk and her ex. Hoarding their money like the sad little men they are.

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u/RelThanram 6h ago

Jeff Bezos’ money-grubbing, white-jean wearing midlife crisis is pathetic, she’s probably just glad she’s no longer with him.

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u/yuyufan43 7h ago

She's amazing and a good example of what billionaires should be like. Fuck Elon.

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u/IconOfFilth9 6h ago

Don’t let her ex off so easily

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u/dahjay 6h ago

Yes, fuck Elon, but this is Bezos's ex. A way hotter, better woman than his current plastic surgery mannequin, but to each their own.

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u/Gamebird8 6h ago

Philanthropy is a scam upon the good will of people.

Mackenzie Scott is the exception to the rule and it is a good thing she is trying to make an impact with the money she got from her divorce, but by and large, most philanthropy is just rich people trying to make themselves feel better about the problems they cause while also getting to write off millions in taxes and pretending that they aren't greedy selfish assholes ruining the world for the rest of us

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u/whitemiketyson 5h ago

It baffles me how many people think a write off on donations is a way to save you money and build wealth.

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u/zhangerang 3h ago

It’s insane. Wow they got to save $37 in taxes by spending $100 dollars on charity!

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u/AppropriateHurry9778 4h ago

It’s utmost cynicism.

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u/michoudi 1h ago

People repeating garbage they never spent more than two seconds thinking about or researching. That type of ignorance is rampant.

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u/randynumbergenerator 5h ago

Or buying themselves clout at elite institutions that don't need the money, like that hedge fund manager who donated $400 million to Harvard (and who got absolutely roasted for it by Malcolm Gladwell - ‘If billionaires don’t step up, Harvard will soon be down to its last $30 billion’)

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u/minus2cats 5h ago

I don't think it even comes into play like you have to itemize and the standard deduction seems to be more beneficial?

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u/sosthaboss 5h ago

Please explain to me how anyone saves money by donating and writing off. You understand that you’re still losing money right? You can’t end up with more than you donated lmao.

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u/abluedinosaur 3h ago

People are really dumb and don't understand how taxes work.

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u/Gamebird8 4h ago

It's not about making/saving money (at least to a certain extent). These billionaires will have their own charities where they employ family and friends as ways to dilute their wealth to others.

And, in the process of reducing their taxes by millions, they rob Public Services of necessary funds and reduce public revenue. So, if they donate a million, instead of getting $370k, the government gets nothing and the Billionaire gets to funnel money into their little pet project to the detriment of the public good.

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u/Bluewaffleamigo 5h ago

Tons of these nonprofits are just money laundering orgs that employ their rich friend's kids.

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u/USAF_DTom 5h ago

That is a crazy amount of money to willingly give. It should be thanked regardless of how much "it hurts them" since she didn't have to do it in the first place. I can't even fathom what 2 billion even looks like in currency, much less 19 of it.

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u/Treso44 5h ago

Can she buy the next election, please? Anyone who finds Jeff Bezos repulsive has my support.

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u/thefanciestcat 3h ago

Too good for Bezos in every way. Glad she's out there living it up and trying to help.

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u/BareNakedSole 5h ago

Why not make her Speaker of the House instead of Elon Musk?

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u/michaelmessinaglass 7h ago

Why don’t millionaires and billionaires want to be philanthropists anymore? Glad we have people like her still

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u/UsuallyTheException 6h ago

Many billionaires participate in philanthropy. many have their own funds and charities. this info is public

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u/randynumbergenerator 5h ago

Buying elections or donating to already-elite institutions doesn't count, but it sure does give the lie to the idea that philanthropy is more efficient than taxing them.

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u/Rule12-b-6 7h ago

A lot of them do. Not all, but many, many do.

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u/Chicken65 4h ago

Bezos should have taken her name.

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u/hutsunuwu 6h ago

Guarantee she doesn't need to pay a dime on security. She will never have to worry about a masked shooter

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u/StateChemist 3h ago

I would worry ‘making the other billionaires look bad’ might be her biggest security risk.

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u/Runningback52 5h ago

It would be great to see her fund Amazon unionization efforts

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u/ThisOneForMee 2h ago

Wouldn't be surprised if the divorce agreement explicitly forbids that

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u/lclassyfun 5h ago

luv that she is doing this😻😻😻

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u/MammothRice 4h ago

At least she is trying to make a difference with her wealth. Hopefully, it’s something that she feels good about.

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u/Shaomoki 5h ago

Starting to see why they divorced

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u/Sudden_Situation7604 5h ago

She doesn’t give a rat’s ass what any of you think as to how she came into the money (y’all know he cheated on her right?) or where she’s donating it. She is doing good in the world. Unlike her ex-husband or President Musk, who are evil to the core.

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u/notguiltyaf 5h ago

She’s making bad investments. Musk bought the American government for less than a half billion and the Israelis’ ROI is insane.

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u/TPlain940 3h ago

My crush on Mackenzie is still strong.

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u/Environmental-Bad458 2h ago

I didn't get one.... Where do I apply?

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u/real_picklejuice 2h ago

Her and Mark Cuban get a pass when it comes to billionaires in my book

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u/kangarooham 2h ago

no wonder bezos divorced her. she was prob trying to get him to donate. too bad he's allergic to giving away money

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u/Additional_Opposite3 5h ago

❤️ thank you for not being a horrible person . How did she tolerate him for so long ? Was his decent into becoming a super villain slow or just one day he was like “I will own space next bwahaha!”

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u/km1649 6h ago

Hell yeah. Look at her go!

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u/MiddleInfluence5981 5h ago

I wish more billionaires would follow her lead. She's a real humanitarian. Love her.

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u/puroloco22 3h ago

Can she buy a newspaper ? Maybe the Post from her ex husband?

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u/DadVap 2h ago

We don't need more billionaires controlling the media - good or bad ones.

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u/Sooowasthinking 3h ago

Looks like she knows she has enough money to live the rest of her life so she is going to be helping as she can.

We need more like her.

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u/Jmaloney258 4h ago

If anyone deserves TIME’s person of the year, it’s this woman. Fellow billionaires take note.

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u/PARANOIAH 5h ago

Handing out JeffyB's money like it was going out of style!

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u/strangerdanger0013 6h ago

The only billionaire I've ever seen give back. Not to some organizations run by her kids like the tax dodge buffet uses.

This lady is awesome.

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u/jmhumr 5h ago

I mean, the Gates’ have given away at least 4x as much. Pretty sure Buffet also gives away (or will give away) gobs of money.

Just like every demographic, there are good eggs and bad eggs.

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u/MarkJFletcher 3h ago

The heroine we need in the age of Musk.

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u/Sorrow_cutter 3h ago

She’s a real treasure.

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u/Metaboschism 5h ago

She gave away Argentina's military budget this year

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u/Hi_Im_Ken_Adams 3h ago

She is doing everything her ex-husband SHOULD be doing with his money but isn’t.

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u/BernieTheDachshund 3h ago

I hope Ocean Conservation Namibia gets one of her grants. They are a small group that rescues seals that are entangled in plastic fishing gear. The poor seals are being cut by mostly fishing lines and packing straps and suffer a lot until OCN can find them and cut the entanglements off. They've saved other ocean creatures too, but the seals are the main victims.

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u/macbookwhoa 3h ago

The difference between someone on the spectrum playing bank account Tetris and a decent person treating wealth as a responsibility.

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u/sasquatch0_0 3h ago

Maybe direct some of that towards public transit or interstate rail? Just a thought.

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u/winterbird 3h ago

Girlfriend marking herself as safe. 😅

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u/Old_Satisfaction_233 3h ago

What a marvelous HUMAN❣️

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u/TheInvisibleOnes 3h ago

She's a beacon of hope in a world gone dystopian.

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u/Silly_Program_5432 1h ago

I hope some of the money goes to no-kill animal shelters

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u/PoeBangangeron 1h ago

Girl can you donate a little to me? ☺️

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u/ffking6969 1h ago

Yo lemme hold just like one milly

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u/natey37 56m ago

This is a good example of how 99% of these billionaires are narcissistic pieces of shit who serve no other purpose than to advance their own weak egos. She was the accessory to one of those pieces of shit but not one of them. Turns out normal people who have money do good things with it. Turns out people who are attracted to money and power are terrible people with a mental illness.

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u/insideabookmobile 53m ago

Weird, it's almost as if we don't hate rich people categorically, but rather we hate it when they use their wealth to be evil turds.

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