Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Bezos superyacht

Re:Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Be... by mwint on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:22PM (#31938062)

Let’s test that… say Bezos really wanted the bridge gone. If Bezos were to pay $100B, half to the government and half to your favorite charity, would you say that’s a good deal?

10B? 1B?

Money doesn’t buy everything, but being too principled about that can harm causes you care about.

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Re:Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Be... by Clent on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:35PM (#31938238)

What about a charity makes it magically better?

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Re:Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Be... by mwint on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:48PM (#31938408)

Government welfare funding, whatever. I’m only trying to illustrate that a billionaire throwing vast amounts of money at a nominally evil thing they want, can easily be offset by society redirecting that money to something “good”.

It’s better to work with the billionaire and harvest their billions for good, than to say “no, you cannot do this thing, ever, for any compensation”

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Re:Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Be... by pawsforthought on Thursday June 30, 2022 @06:56PM (#31939746)

The pragmatist in me says you make a good point. The idealist in me shrivels in disgust nevertheless.

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