Not that the rich are incapable of long-term thinking or charity, but the Conservancy is a non-profit that gets 25% of it's $65M funding from taxpayers and does

Not that the rich are incapable of long-term thinking or charity, but the Conservancy is a non-profit that gets 25% of it's $65M funding from taxpayers and does a lot fundraising. Where I'm from is a monument to private works. There are signs showing what areas looked like through the decades, and while barren for most of it, great parks and buildings once existed for the local wealthy who razed swathes of the city rather than allow them to be converted to public use by blacks and the poor. The names of the neighborhoods are the only remains of those times. Parks and Halls and Clubs downtown sit with no parks or halls or clubs nearby them, roads torn up or blockades built to cordone off access. One park that the rich didn't eat is nice, but I wouldn't run out to put any utilities or infrastructure in their hands because of it.