Current Events > Why do people get mad when Beezos donates money

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Dude donated 10 Billion for climate change
100 million for food

And each response is that he should pay taxes instead. It's not his fault in how the current tax law is written.

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"Thats only less than 1% of his income! I donated 40 bucks which is 70% of my income, so i am doing much more than that rich greedy douchebag"

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It's like a normal person donating a penny

Rexdragon125 posted...

It's like a normal person donating a penny

OK? It's still 100 million to feed people.

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If my penny could save and feed millions I would give it.

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Nobody needs a net worth of more than $10k. Everything over that should be seized by the government and redistributed to those of us unwilling to work.

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They're bitter

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The thing people like that don't refuse to understand is that net worth isn't the money you have in the bank ready to be withdrawn.

They look stupid every time but even though people explain every time, they usually get downvoted on a site like reddit and they basically just wasted their time trying to educate others.
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ill break it down. its a combo of cognitive dissonance and justification of that dissonance

belief: I think all rich people are bad evil people who do not care about anyone else and clearly these rich people believe others are only there to be exploited. Also, I personally am a very moral person.

real life: bezos is a rich person. bezos donated lots of money

cognitive dissonance kicks in: how can I believe that all rich people are bad evil people who do not care about others, while at the same time handling the fact that bezos donated more money than ill ever make in my life to do good, thus doing more good than myself, even though I am a moral person according to the belief above.

justification: bezos is still evil because he did not donate enough percentage of his money. this is the true gauge of morality. if only i had more money i would be donating way more of a percentage because I am very moral.

So much of CE is so fucking bitter than even when legitimate help is being extended to the less fortunate that they might have not got otherwise, CE still cries about the wealthy.

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because its not going into their pocket

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You're not supposed to announce or brag how much you give anyway.

It could be seen as self gratifying than honest charity.

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ConfessPlease posted...

It's not his fault in how the current tax law is written.

Really? I find it hard to believe he doesn't use his immense wealth and power to manipulate tax law by buying Congress.

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And if pay actually kept up with productivity none of this would be a problem in the first place lol

Because they don't understand that net worth isn't how much cash someone had access to

And also don't understand that charities and researchers appreciate and can do far more with .01% of a billionaire's net worth than 100% of an average person's net worth

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ConfessPlease posted...

It's not his fault in how the current tax law is written.

while this is true he does have a choice in how many loopholes / deductions / etc he takes advantage of.

but on topic i have no issue with him donating money and i dont complain when he does.

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SH_expert44 posted...

"Thats only less than 1% of his income! I donated 40 bucks which is 70% of my income, so i am doing much more than that rich greedy douchebag"

Nobody donated 40$ out of their only 60$. But you are factually giving up way more of your lifestyle if you do. Your future would change drastically, compared to someone being able to completely carry on as usual. If you only had 60$ in total, giving away 40$ would create so much more struggle for you.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Nobody donated 40$ out of their only 60$. But you are factually giving up way more if you do. Your future would change drastically, compared to someone being able to completely carry on as usual. If you only had 60$ in total, giving away 40$ would create so much more struggle for you.

When it comes to giving and the amount of good it will do, your personal struggle means NOTHING. If you are giving your all and it doesnt come to a lot, thats great. You are helping. But when you try to downplay someone giving more than 10 generations of your family could ever possibly give, youre being a weenie.

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It's not much compared to what he has

But at least it's something, so there ya go

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Bezos could only donate a portion or nothing at all.

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Apparently people think that all that matters is how much % of your wealth you donate. Funny part is if you ask them how much percentage would be fair they always dodge the question because they know it's unreasonable to think that way but don't want to admit they are wrong.

Also a lot of the people who shit on someone like Bezos for "not doing enough" more than likely haven't donated a dime.

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Some of the types would just spend it on sleeve and neck tattoos.

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Some people think money is better in the paws of the government over charities...

SH_expert44 posted...

When it comes to giving and the amount of good it will do, your personal struggle means NOTHING. If you are giving your all and it doesnt come to a lot, thats great. You are helping. But when you try to downplay someone giving more than 10 generations of your family could ever possibly give, youre being a weenie.

Ok. That different than what I was talking about, but ok. Of course your struggle doesn't make your money worth more. I was never debating that

I also appreciate what they do, but turning a blind eye to other motives is silly too

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If i could i would also donate to specific charities or causes rather than let the govt waste my tax money on junk

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Because it doesn't actually do very much, but liberals and other capitalists expect us to suck his dick, and frankly, too many of us obliged.

Also, things wouldn't be so bad if he and other capitalist didn't steal so much money from people in the first place.

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Jeff Bezos could give away 99% of his net worth and still have more money than he can possibly spend in his lifetime

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Because it doesn't actually do very much, but liberals and other capitalists expect us to suck his dick, and frankly, too many of us obliged.

Also, things wouldn't be so bad if he and other capitalist didn't steal so much money from people in the first place.

Lol. People give Amazon money of their own volition.

Beezos is the antichrist. Ugh.

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ConfessPlease posted...

Dude donated 10 Billion for climate change
100 million for food

And each response is that he should pay taxes instead. It's not his fault in how the current tax law is written.

Yeah, and these same idiots would be fucking over people like me who also benefit from those same tax laws.

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thanosibe posted...

People give Amazon money of their own volition.

Okay.

Anyway, things wouldn't be so bad if he and other capitalist didn't steal people's money.

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Lol. People give Amazon money of their own volition.

People gave Standard Oil money of their own volition and yet we all agree that John D. Rockefeller didn't earn his money fairly.

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they're not getting mad when he donates money. they are typically pointing out one or more of several possible things:
1. philanthropy is less effective than paying taxes and having adequately funded social programs
2. they get tax exemptions for many of these donations, thereby contributing to problem 1.
3. because their donations are frequently given through their own charitable organizations, they have a much greater degree of control over where the money goes. this, again, contributes further to problem 1.
4. there are only a few reasons why wealthy people make donations like this; tax breaks and increased control are two of them.
the third reason is optics: it makes them look good. as shown clearly in this topic, there are many people who incorrectly assume the donation is due to benevolence.

so which of those are you interpreting as "get[ting] mad"?

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C_Pain posted...

They're bitter

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