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> Man, is anyone else seriously bummed out by how cynically everyone is viewing this announcement? He's making a big deal to get a lot of publicity out of it.
by mhurron 11y ago
> Man, is anyone else seriously bummed out by how cynically everyone is viewing this announcement?
He's making a big deal to get a lot of publicity out of it. With that alone it's not being done just out of the goodness of his heart.
- lifeformed 11y agoSo what? What if Bill Gates revealed on his deathbed that he did all his charity work only for egotistical reasons? So what? Good for him, he gets the ego boost he wants, we get a better world. If Mark Zuckerberg puts his wealth towards the greater good, then that's good, no matter what his reasons are. Why does he get more flack for doing this than for the Walton family giving nothing to charity? If Mark just wanted to avoid taxes, he would've done so quietly. If he's doing it for his own ego, then that's good: it means he is incentivized to be effective in his charity.
- mhurron 11y ago> So what? So I don't trust them.
- Chathamization 11y agoPablo Escobar donated a ton of money to the community. Should people have just praised him for that, and said that his reasons don't matter, and so what if he was donating largely to ingratiate himself into the community in order to protect himself from authorities? We can't simply ignore a person's motives.
- umanwizard 11y agoYou don't need motives to explain why Pablo Escobar was a bad person even if Bill Gates isn't. Pablo Escobar killed loads of people.