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Just because they could afford to give more doesn't make this money meaningless. I'm not saying we need to like, bow down and praise Bezos over this, or that i
by NickM 3y ago
Just because they could afford to give more doesn't make this money meaningless.
I'm not saying we need to like, bow down and praise Bezos over this, or that it erases any other bad things he may have done...but let's try to acknowledge that hundreds of millions toward this kind of charity is an actual good thing and not just a pointless PR stunt.
- axlee 3y agoI'd prefer if Amazon et al paid their taxes and society as a whole could decide how to spend it to better itself, through the democracy that we are supposed to live in.
- blamazon 3y agoTo that end, to put the $400MM in perspective, Amazon has received $671MM of disclosed tax breaks and other subsidies from New York State. [1] (Context note: NYS 'jobs for tax cuts' program may be the most aggressive in the nation? I'm not an expert.) [1]: https://goodjobsfirst.org/amazon-tracker/?state=New+York https://goodjobsfirst.org/amazon-tracker/?state=New+York
- pb7 3y agoWhat taxes do they not pay? Have you contacted the IRS about this tax evasion? They have a whistleblower program so you could pocket some cash!
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- NickM 3y agoWell, sure, there are lots of things that could happen in the world that would be even better than a $400M donation like this, but that doesn't make a $400M donation a bad or pointless thing. Nor does it make this donation somehow responsible for stopping those other good things from happening.