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I agree with you, I have only seen one of his videos in which he paid for people to have cataract surgery I found it strangely absurd. The issue is if he was t
by bigger_cheese 3y ago
I agree with you, I have only seen one of his videos in which he paid for people to have cataract surgery I found it strangely absurd.
The issue is if he was to instead start using money to tackle systemic issues then it moves beyond philanthropy and it becomes political. "I paid for 1000 people to have cataract surgery" as a video hits a lot differently to "I lobbied congress to make cataract surgery free"
Systemic change is hard and a lot of people won't want to engage with it. It is easy to look at an altruistic act and say "this is a good thing" a lot harder to question the underlying causes that necessitated the act.
There is a famous quote "When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor they call me a communist."