I wish more millionaires and billionaires would use their exorbitant wealth for community service. Clearly they can still be wealthy and make positive impacts in the world.
I have a hard time imagining not doing that if I were rich. The constant motivation to do something to help people would be so strong.
I’d be a full on hedonist. Donate to causes in person for the smiles and the thanks.
Having my name on stuff - eh… not as important b/c I see how colloquial names are given and dedicator’s names[1] are ignored.
[1] Bay Area people: you ever hop on the Nimitz or Junipero Sera? More like the 880 or the 280. Or do you hear “John F. Kennedy Space Center” or just “Cape Canaveral” when rockets launch?
I’d like to go around leaving big ass tips. 5 dollar coffee, here’s a 1000 dollar tip.
It’s called Morgan’s Wonderland. The father’s company has also built a community center next to the park.
And this is why good people who got rich don’t stay rich and people who do are usually selfish assholes. Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion, he could have literally built hundreds of amusement parks for disabled people with the same money. Or do literally a thousand other things to make life for other people better. Instead he bought a toxic social media platform to make it even more toxic.
He bought twitter because he was trying to do a pump and dump with the stock. Then the SEC said we warned you once you better be serious this time. He decided buying twitter for a massive premium was better then possible prison time.
He bought twitter because he was trying to do a pump and dump with the stock.
Maybe, but the fact of Saudi and Russian backing of his takeover and his turning twitting into (more of) a nazi propaganda shithole suggests that was the main purpose behind the acquisition - especially when the cost was an absolutely trivial fraction of his overall wealth.
That’s why they loaned him the money. Most of his wealth is Tesla stock. He either needed loans or to sell a bunch of stock.
Technically speaking he could have built 4,823 of these amusement parks and still be a billionaire after.
That’s beautiful of him. 💓
How special do my needs have to be?
This is well out of reach for most of us to replicate, but think about Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk… These dragons could change the entire world, yet they instead only seek personal gains and the disruption of positive progress.
Good for this guy and his family, though. He did what so many will never care to do.
All the positive things they could be spending their money on that wouldn’t put a chip in their wealth and the only charities any of them do keeps turning out to be way to hide their money from the tax collectors.
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk… These dragons
The only sense in which they’re dragons is “dragon deez nuts across our faces”.
Also the wealth hording.
Smaug was only worth $62bn
Let’s not lump Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk together though. I feel weird defending Bezos, but he does have a big charitable fund that’s quite transparent about how it spends its money. As for Elon, he’s allegedly given billions to charity, but has never specified what that charity is and given his views on things it’s probably appropriate to consider that highly suspect.
This just makes me think of south park where Cartman buys a theme park but with a more wholesome twist.
Yes slightly more wholesome
