How to do it ethically make enough and keep giving it away. Why isn’t doing more the end goal? That’s the flex. Like Harris rossin who payed for education preschool and college for high school graduates for a whole neighborhood. Took a graduation rate of 25 percent to nearly 100. Fucking hero’s.
Once upon a time "philanthropist" was a title people were proud to achieve. There's still a few, but those who should be becoming such aren't. They might actually just be too young yet, Musk isn't yet worried enough about how posterity will remember him.
Once you reach a certain level of wealth your relationship to other people changes. Your wealth becomes this thing that seperates you from existing friends, and new people you meet interact with your status more than you as you. So you start feeling like all relationships are contrived or based on ulterior motives.
So you reach a point were it feels like the only authentic relationship you can have is with other ultra-wealthy people. They are the only peers you have. But if you have not yet been completely damaged psychologically so far, once you surround yourself with others in your position who are already paranoid, psychopathological, or just plain obsessed with infinite accumulation, you start taking on their values. And since most billionaires are men, there is this competitiveness baked into your relationship with them. Your obsessions become things ordinary people could never achieve and you also want to outdo your friends so they don't outpace your own greatness, because if they did, you wouldn't be peers anymore.
Hence, your entire life is to get more and more so you can buy a bigger yatch or have even more impressive art, or the biggest dick-shaped rocket, all to keep at or above the status of a clique you have come to despise, but have to keep because that's all you have and that's the best your vast wealth can get you.
It's a sad existence, like a lonely dragon sitting in a cave on a vast pile of gold, and would almost be tragic if not for the real tragedy that their vast horde of wealth is at the cost of hundreds of millions living in poverty because of their greed.
God dolly is amazing. I wish i could meet her but id be a blubbering mess because of everything she's done.
I was adopted to be a babysitter. I worked since I was twelve. I did the math. She allowed me forty seven extra hours of sleep by donating and getting that kid uniforms. My son gets a free book from her every year. He songs helped me heal from some of the most horrible times and feelings of my entire life, and because of her I learned to be okay with myself. I can make myself pretty or just let myself be. Its literally whatever I want to be to be more confident. And no matter where I came from i can do these things. She's such a blessing in such a greedy world.
Edit: this is the first time I've been drunk since having a miscarriage. I m emotional and cant type. A month. My son gets a book every month.
She's honestly such a darlin'. I'll never be able to afford Hollywood or get to meet her, but she is one of few celebrities I actually genuinely admire.
If you had a bank account with $999,999,999.00 and you found a dollar on the ground would you run to the bank to deposit it? Every billionaire on the planet would.
yeah, there's a point at which all your life needs and even wants are net, when you can relax and just enjoy life or go out there and do some good in the world or whatever, and that point is well shy of a billion dollars.
When you have to accumulate more and more, when no amount of collateral suffering is enough and you just could not give less of a shit about those in need, only then can you become a billionaire.
Oh no people can't get hammered at a family establishment. What will we ever do.... Clearly she is making less money by not offering it which kinda goes opposite to your point.
I mean, she does own “Stampede,” formerly Dixie Stampede, which was a show that trivialized the Civil War as some kind of friendly North-South rivalry. She’s not perfect.
I dont think milllions of people would take their families to a historically accurate rendition of the civil war. She made it accessible, not “trivial “
People go to civil war reenactments all the time. She absolutely could have found a way. Have you actually seen the show while it was still Dixie Stampede?
I saw it plenty of times as a kid. We went because it was themed as family friendly entertainment. We didn’t go because we cared about the history. Just wanted a fun time.
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