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Chuck Feeney is not "officially broke." Per this story he has a couple million set aside for retirement and is living a perfectly happy life with all of his nee
by jaas 6y ago
Chuck Feeney is not "officially broke." Per this story he has a couple million set aside for retirement and is living a perfectly happy life with all of his needs met. It seems disrespectful to Feeney's vision for his own life - he can give away so much and still be fine. Not broke.
I don't know why the author had to cross the line into falsehood with the title. It's a great story about a great person, why sacrifice your integrity with an utterly false headline, particularly when the story doesn't need it?
- andys627 6y ago> I don't know why More scandalous title gets more clicks. Sucks...
- js2 6y agoThe author very likely did not choose the headline and the story itself never refers to Feeney being broke. It does use the idiom “go for broke” meaning to give something your full effort, which Feeney certainly did. Perhaps the headline was a lame attempt at a pun on the idiom or perhaps it’s just a clickbait headline.