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> Take some Sackler millions and you can feed a million hungry people, cure cancer, or expand our knowledge of the past. At best you can feed a million people
by akiselev 5y ago
> Take some Sackler millions and you can feed a million hungry people, cure cancer, or expand our knowledge of the past.
At best you can feed a million people for a day (you certainly won't be curing cancer) but you will launder their reputation in the process. These kinds of charitable causes allow for people like the Sacklers to get the attention they crave from their fellow high society despite the awful things they have done, just because they flash their wallets around at a few galas. As long as nothing requires them to change their behavior, they won't.