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Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube by avereveard on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:17AM (#36306707)
He managed to build a self sustaining form of altruism that doesn't depend on taxes or a field of call centers harassing people for donations, that has to be worth something, regardless of the ultimate motive.
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Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube by mihaic on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:04AM (#36311290)
My worry for instance is that what he's doing in not scalable on the level of a society, yet it's polluting our public thoughts so much that better solutions are stifled.
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Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube by em-bee on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:33PM (#36315684)
which better solutions would that be?

at the moment i believe the most important thing that our society needs is more awareness that there is a problem to begin with. without that awareness no change can happen.

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