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Actions speak louder than words. Billionaires stand by while the miserable and hopeless suffer. Billionaires fund FOX News to indoctrinate the middle class and

Actions speak louder than words. Billionaires stand by while the miserable and hopeless suffer. Billionaires fund FOX News to indoctrinate the middle class and push them toward self-destruction. Which billionaires are funding universal liberal educations or a culture of empowerment? By their actions the upper class is saying that they don't want a middle class. They are saying: if the middle class is so stupid to fall for Rupert Murdoch propaganda and Evangelical Christianity, then they deserve to be enslaved. The alternative would be to fund liberal educations, fund free mental health services, fund enlightening media like PBS rather than saying, "If the middle class won't fund it it doesn't deserve to exist." So many of the elite put all the burden on others. It's true that people should take care of themselves, but they don't. Mental illness is epidemic. Are the wealthy going to stand by and watch as the middle class implodes? Not all plutocrats are malicious, but the majority are indifferent, and their actions speak this.

yummyfajitas 15y ago
Which billionaires are funding universal liberal educations or a culture of empowerment? I have no clue what a "culture of empowerment" is, but as to funding education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundati... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/09/mark-zuckerberg-to-donate-half-his-wealth-to-charity/ http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/09/mark-zuckerberg-to-donat... Another billionaire was recently in the news for donating $40k to a Republican governor. He also donated $7M to PBS, $35M to educating people about evolution and $78M to educating people about science in general didn't make the news. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Koch#Philanthropy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Koch#Philanthropy These are just a few that I can think of. Peter Thiel also funds education, though probably not the sort of education you wish he would fund.
- forensic 15y ago
  Those numbers are a drop in the bucket and generally are not targeted at increasing the size of the middle class. Remember that the lower class is literate. Conspicuously absent: - lowering cost of higher education - lowering cost of mental health services - lowering cost of land / rent Literacy doesn't create a middle class. Higher education, mental health, and ownership of land does. These issues never seem to be touched by philanthropists because philanthropists are ambivalent about the middle class. Peter Thiel is a total elitist by the way. He has no interest or love for uneducated, mentally ill masses and is just the kind of guy who would probably quote Ayn Rand when people are starving to death.

yummyfajitas 15y ago

Which billionaires are funding universal liberal educations or a culture of empowerment? I have no clue what a "culture of empowerment" is, but as to funding education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundati... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/09/mark-zuckerberg-to-donate-half-his-wealth-to-charity/ http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/09/mark-zuckerberg-to-donat... Another billionaire was recently in the news for donating $40k to a Republican governor. He also donated $7M to PBS, $35M to educating people about evolution and $78M to educating people about science in general didn't make the news. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Koch#Philanthropy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Koch#Philanthropy These are just a few that I can think of. Peter Thiel also funds education, though probably not the sort of education you wish he would fund.

forensic 15y ago
Those numbers are a drop in the bucket and generally are not targeted at increasing the size of the middle class. Remember that the lower class is literate. Conspicuously absent: - lowering cost of higher education - lowering cost of mental health services - lowering cost of land / rent Literacy doesn't create a middle class. Higher education, mental health, and ownership of land does. These issues never seem to be touched by philanthropists because philanthropists are ambivalent about the middle class. Peter Thiel is a total elitist by the way. He has no interest or love for uneducated, mentally ill masses and is just the kind of guy who would probably quote Ayn Rand when people are starving to death.