Re:MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4....
by spoonjim on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:37AM
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It's because the GP is discrediting MacKenzie Bezos that he or she is being discredited in response. If GP is going to find fault with someone donating $4 billion and ask "why not more," the question rightly comes back to "well what have you accomplished compared to her?"
Re:MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4....
by cute_boi on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:54AM
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The issue is GP has made sacrifice but MacKenzie doesn't have to scarify as much as GP. GP am not saying MacKenzie have to make sacrifice but he is just pointing the fact we live in society where richest people hoards money instead of using it for betterment society. And most of the donations are just plain PR strategy or some tax escape strategy.
You may argue they earned hard for that money but some people are just lucky and don't have to struggle and are so greedy they don't care about anyone else.
Re:MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4....
by jrs235 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:12AM
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The Commentary is quite interesting here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite
Re:MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4....
by xref on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:10AM
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The OP literally chose to make it a contest, complaining MacKenzie wasn’t doing as much as him percentage wise.
Re:MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4....
by pintxo on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:22AM
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The used metric was "impressiveness", not raw percentages.
The OP argued, that assuming she had donated 59B out of the total of 60B, while this would (probably) be a higher percentage than the OP, it still would not be "impressive". She would retain 1B, which, I hope we can all agree, is more than enough to live a wealthy life, and certainly more than the 3k left on the account of OP.
Re:MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4....
by regularemployee on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:57PM
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Yeah this is what I meant, thanks for helping explaining it so well.
Re:MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she gave $4....
by BeetleB on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:28AM
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> and it's disheartening to see comments such as yours discrediting (passively as it may be) the help some people give
How is stating that his sacrifice is admirable a way to discredit the help he/she is giving?
It's not a contest though, is it? I'm sure we can all help one another in some way, and it's disheartening to see comments such as yours discrediting (passively as it may be) the help some people give, as if their help is less worthy than others.