MacKenzie Scott actually helped found Amazon, she married Bezos before Amazon even existed and literally worked on it with him from the very beginning. The whole idea that she married into wealth or “got it from the divorce” reeks of sexism.
She’s also rapidly giving away her money with no strings attached, and she’s supporting underserved communities all over the US. The HBCU in my city got a massive grant from her that’s totally transformed what it will be capable of, for example. I just don’t get why you’re choosing this person to rag on out of all the truly vile billionaires out there
I don’t see it as ragging on her. I think she is being used as an example as she has given away more in proportion to her total wealth than most other billionaires yet is now worth more than ever. The point I believe this meme is making is billionaires will still continue to be obscenely rich even if they are heavily taxed.
I see it as pointing out that even after giving away around 2/3rds of her wealth, the remaining third managed to generate more than what was given away.
In other words, an example of the axiom that you need money in order to make money, and if you have an obscene amount like $10 billion , it can double itself easily without any real effort on your part required
I respect her contributions and philanthropy. I just don’t think essential social support should depend on the generosity of billionaires instead of stable public systems.
No human needs a billion dollars. It’s an utterly obscene amount of money and just because you give away $26 billion does not mean that the remaining 10 billion is an acceptable amount to keep.
MacKenzie Scott actually helped found Amazon, she married Bezos before Amazon even existed and literally worked on it with him from the very beginning. The whole idea that she married into wealth or “got it from the divorce” reeks of sexism.
She’s also rapidly giving away her money with no strings attached, and she’s supporting underserved communities all over the US. The HBCU in my city got a massive grant from her that’s totally transformed what it will be capable of, for example. I just don’t get why you’re choosing this person to rag on out of all the truly vile billionaires out there
I don’t see it as ragging on her. I think she is being used as an example as she has given away more in proportion to her total wealth than most other billionaires yet is now worth more than ever. The point I believe this meme is making is billionaires will still continue to be obscenely rich even if they are heavily taxed.
I see it as pointing out that even after giving away around 2/3rds of her wealth, the remaining third managed to generate more than what was given away.
In other words, an example of the axiom that you need money in order to make money, and if you have an obscene amount like $10 billion , it can double itself easily without any real effort on your part required
I respect her contributions and philanthropy. I just don’t think essential social support should depend on the generosity of billionaires instead of stable public systems.
No argument here
No human needs a billion dollars. It’s an utterly obscene amount of money and just because you give away $26 billion does not mean that the remaining 10 billion is an acceptable amount to keep.
A million seconds is 11 days or so. A billion seconds is 31 YEARS.
just to put it in perspective of how big a billion truly is
I don’t disagree, but my points still stand