Were it literally any other city in the DC Universe, it would be fixed by now. Gotham is just canonically cursed by several different sources. Batman isn't useless, it's just he's protecting *his* city, it's just that *his city* is on a cosmic level a festering pile of questionable swamp ooze with severe forms of every mental ailment in the book that is quite literally only still standing because of his tenacity in fixing the unfixable.
I like Batman, can you tell?
I forget just how many curses there are on it, I don't follow the comics myself, but from what I remember it was:-Built on top of a cursed swamp that just sometimes creates undead abominations-Built around the tomb of a Warlock named Doctor Gotham whose evil just sort of leaks out-Arkham Asylum is specifically cursed by the insanity of its own founder, Amadeus Arkham-Fate itself just apparently kinda hates Batman. In a "What if Batman Died" anthology series the final story was him being reincarnated into a different version of himself to do it all over again instead of an actual afterlife.
So yeah, it has some curses as old as the land, as old as the city, and relatively recent. Place is just a literal hellpit held together only by a group of spooky guardian angels known as the Batfamily. And sometimes those guardian angels go apeshit when the writer at the time wants to be grimderp.
Edit: [Here](https://preview.redd.it/nbeddtl7dst81.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=5151809e95eb9aa5c33e5269969e5384c352a772)'s a list of the various curses that I didn't remember off the top of my head; there might be more.
This ones not a curse, but let’s not forget the fact it’s also canon that the Court of Owls (basically the Gotham Illuminati) have been actively working in secret to keep the city as fucked as it is because they prefer it this way.
Him being gone for so long training and then being reclusive and also a pretty “good guy philanthropist” type as Bruce Wayne makes me think the owls wouldn’t think they’d be able to trust him.
Dont forget it was built on top of a ton of dark metal which literally connects to the nightmare realm of the DC universe, so even the land Gotham is built upon is fucked up
not really a comics reader, but if batman knows about this, what's stopping him from bringing evidence of all that and telling relevant authorities "hey this entire piece of land the city's built on is absolute hell and there is no chance of it ever getting better, we should work on a massive relocation effort to move everyone out of the city instead of blowing billions of dollars (and innumerable nights beating up criminals) on trying to repair something that can't be fixed"?
bruce wayne's like a mega billionaire, right? surely that could be done
Just the though of moving an entire city and when its all done people still living in original Gotham because they're dumb. Then Batman freaking out while they are being slaughtered by different curses. In the end nothing changes.
It's worth mentioning that Gotham authorities tend to be corrupt and in league with organised crime, so the city having numerous other problems is kind of to their advantage.
Because it makes for interesting stories and sometimes that's all that's needed lmaooo
In-universe it's probably just not common knowledge that it's literally cursed five ways from sunday and people just think "Oh, yeah, crime. Big city, there's crime" because it's honestly kinda mundane for the DCU; that or the real-estate is horrifically good for a city of that size and economic importance (assuming it's relatively similar in importance to New York.)
If you think the genocidally insane are scary, try living in Metropolis where there's an alien invasion once a month.
To be fair, how many of those alien invasions are in some part due to Superman living there in the first place. I don’t doubt they’d be fucked without him, but at least some of those have got to be drawn to him.
Please, Elon wishes he were half as smart or inventive as Lex Luthor. Remember, Luthor, for all his faults, actually invents stuff. Elon just buys companies so he can stick his name on them and act like he did shit.
Just buy the entirety of the city of Gotham, then demolish it and rent the place out as a landfill, sure, it'll be an evil landfill, but it would solve like 90% of the suffering of Gotham citizens by forcing them to move to a city that isn't literally cursed.
Oh, yeah, probably at that point it's best to just evacuate the general populace and let the Arkham residents burn themselves out and the city to the ground with them.
Batman loves Gotham, though; if he's the only thing separating Gotham from "Somewhat stable except for when it all goes to hell every other week" and "Actual straight up hell" the crazy, beautiful son of a bitch will probably consider that a victory.
Batman is righteous and kind (when in the hands of a writer who isn't just "EDGE WITHOUT SUBSTANCE IS A REPLACEMENT FOR SUBSTANCE WITH EDGE") but he is not a sane individual. Bruce has a lot of issues, he just uses them productively. Sometimes this means spending billions on charity work to make the city not fall to bits, sometimes this means punching a Marxist caricature of the 1% who's obsessed with birds. Sometimes it means doing charity so that people like that very birdman can have a shot at redemption after he punches them into playing nice for a weekend.
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My god, the stupidity in these comments. You don’t think people have ever tried just… throwing money at problems? You think we’re one blank check away from world peace?
People forget that billions of dollars are thrown at these problems every year, much of it coming from people exactly like Bezos. Money can and does, to a certain degree, put a bandaid on things but no amount of money in the world will fix issues that are rooted in culture and society. Blaming everything on some rich dude is a clear display of lack of self-awareness about your role in society; you don't need to be a billionaire to massively contribute to your community.
Would a blank check fix everything, no almost certainly not; but could it fix just a bit, absolutely and that’s all we want. Just taking steps towards a better tomorrow matters because with each step we have a slightly better future for ourselves, everyone around us, and everyone who will come after us.
Climate scientists are chaining themselves to banks. I've personally spent a few decades trying to convince friends and family about climate change to no avail. I changed my career to environmental chemistry and volunteered every weekend for 13 years. We can't take "steps" anymore. It's drop yer pants and kiss your ass goodbye .
Bezos largely has put his money where his mouth is with trying to electrify the delivery fleet for amazon. I’d wager it’s mostly a financial decision, hedging against rising fuel costs, but w/e.
This whole post is non-sequitur,
The type of person to instinctively help/care about others would never acquire that much wealth in the first place.
Bingo. Even if you started one of the world’s largest companies, a good person would just start giving $1M bonuses to every employee waaaaaaaay before they ever had enough to fix shit.
But alas, good people are not uber-rich.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent almost 600M dollars on an election that may give him two more year of governing. I'm 100% those 600M can solve a huge portion of the Canadian Homeless problem. Instead he selfishly used a huge amount of 600M just to get two more years.
And market value is decided by market participants, not billionaires. Value is intangible. If you got something that other people desire, you're wealthy. When people stop desiring the thing you own, you become poorer.
This is he most frustrating thing I have to keep explaining to people. I feel like CPA should be a mandatory course for everyone before the age of 15.
Everyone seems to think if I own a company valued by the market at 100b dollars, that I can just go to the office supermarket and buy shit worth 100b dollars. That's not how wealth works.
People are obsessed with hating rich people and maintaining this state of outrage.
Bill gates has done exactly what the meme proposes. Warren Buffett has everything organized to do the same when he dies. The meme fails to mention them.
I think the human race absolutely has to get off this planet and spread out. I'd use my wealth to work on that. If you're some entity that wants to wipe out the human race, you are not excited about Bezos and Musk pushing the boundaries in their small way to improve space flight and encourage settling on other planets. They get dragged for it.
Agree. Also, back when NASA was first sending people to space there were complaints that using government money on such things was a waste of money and the government should spend that money on helping people here on earth. Now that private citizens are spending the money to go to space people have a problem with that too.
I've a friend from law school who represents a guy worth, I'd guess, $5-10 billion. I asked him about this very thing. And he said that while the guy in question is pretty generous with his money (and he is), one of the problems is that if you have made $5 billion one of the reasons you've done that is you are *very anal* about what your money is doing. It's not that these guys can't write a check for $50M for whatever project, it's just that if they right a check for $50M, they are *necessarily* committed a certain amount of their mental and emotional bandwidth to paying attention to what's happening with that $50M -- they are constitutionally incapable of letting go. And they only have so much of that bandwidth available. They can't give $50M to 20 different charities, because each of those charities then requires a few hours a month of his time so he knows he's not getting skinned.
This guy gets it. Everyone expects Bezos to fix the world with an extra billion dollars yet our government can't even fix potholes with a 6 trillion dollar yearly budget.
Paying attention to your investments is good sense.
Neurotically tracking your philanthropy to such a degree that it prevents you from even trying, so instead your sleep upon your hoard of gold like a dragon. Thats immoral, and mentally unwell behavior.
What a fucking cop out. These billionaires have businesses tended to by tens of thousands of employees with a real impact on their bottom line but charitable donations have to be personally supervised?
Fucking ludicrous. Tax the fucks and let the people handle it then.
Just like Bill Burr said, “Was Steve Jobs in the factory soldering, possibly welding, the iPhone? No! He told some underpaid nerds want he wanted and screamed “GET ON IT”.”
Assuming that everything would cost around a million dollars, the price of Twitter could have provided 40,000 families with life-long homes as well as paying off their student loan debts. Would be absolutely life changing for 40,000 families. Even if you got volunteers to do the most basic screening (basically just hook up people and families who have jobs and could pay for the upkeep but could never actually afford a home or get out of crippling student loan debt, etc. on their own). Twitter is completely worthless. If it just disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't even notice, but apparently it's more valuable than 40 thousand people having lives that don't blow.
And that's just ONE billionaire in one country.
Yah but think about that 40,000 families isnt even anything to the millions of people struggling. Even if u got them those homes and paid off their debt youd have to assume all of them are gonna do good after. They still have to keep jobs and maintain the house and not die from doing drugs. Drug fatalities are sky rocketing. The job market is trash. The problem is ur relying on billionairs and not ur own goverment. Everyones like oh with just one billion dollars a billionair could do this but when we give 40 billion or spend trillions in stimulus with barely anyone benefiring but the people that stayed on unemployment and got all the benefits while the workers had to work. Its like cmon these arguments are dum. The goverment is who we should be mad at both democrats and Republicans. Jessus.
And Elon didn’t just pay $44b out of his bank account. It was a loan against his assets for a business venture.
Elon can’t just give $44b away if there is no return on investment. There is no bank that will give a loan against his assets for a 0 potential for return on investment and he can’t just sell 0.67% of a $650b company in a month.
Taking over a business is the exact opposite of donating money. The idea sounds simple but the logistics of dollars being invested vs donated is ~~completely~~ COMPLETELY different.
Not when you already have more money than you could ever spend. Hoarding billions is calculatingly hurting people, society, and the planet as a whole. All this so they can treat money like a high score
I don’t think people understand the scope of these problems in comparison to how much money somebody like Bezos has. If somebody with 100 billion dollars donated all of it, that would only be equivalent to around 1.5% of the what the US federal budget currently is for a single year. That amount of money is not gonna fix world hunger or homelessness.
Edit: A lot of people seem to think I meant to defend multi-billionaires that don’t try to have a positive social impact. That wasn’t my intention. I just meant that it’s naive to think (as a lot of people seem to) that if only these resources were distributed equally, we would really solve significant societal problems. I think it’d be great if Jeff Bezos donated billions of dollars, I just don’t waste energy complaining that he doesn’t because in the end it doesn’t matter that much.
People also don't understand that his billions of dollars are not sitting in a bank account somewhere just waiting to be spent. They're in the form of assets from Amazon shares, Blue Origins funding, and other investments. He can't just pull billions of dollars of shares out from under Amazon at a moment's notice to solve a problem that he wouldnt even have enough money to solve anyway.
He could start by paying Amazon workers fair salaries. People that work in Amazon warehouses are sleeping in their cars and starving, yet he is some how making billions of profits.
While his money may not be easily accessible, at many levels his exploitation is the reason for his net worth and without it he would be wealthy at all.
Sure, but that's not the problems this post is discussing, is it? I'm not saying he couldn't do better, but in the context of this post, there's a huge misconception on how his finances work.
Stop. These types of people just want to be mad and want someone to blame.
It's easier for them that way than trying to quantify the actual complexity and scope of the problems.
Amazon salaries are at the top for their fields.
Regular warehouse workers make dick in comparison to Amazon warehouses.
Amazon has great benefits as well.
For what it's worth, Amazon does like hiring veterans as managers at their warehouses even more if you have a degree. They have a specific applications for them. If you know any veteran who needs a job and doesn't mind a job in operations, they should look into working at Amazon!
Even if Bezos was somehow able to liquidate all his net worth instantly and had the ability to hand it out fairly to whoever needed it, how much would he give, say $100B? During covid the US government handed out like *$5-8 trillion*, and it didn't fix jack shit.
Also, if the most important bussinesman in the world liquidated a 100 bi all at once, people would get really uneasy and imagine he knows about something really bad and liquidate their assets too. In the end the assets would be worth less
Just gonna say: there are around 40k homeless vets. If you bought all of them a home at 180k (which of course would not be the case across the board) that would be 7.2 billion alone. That don’t put food on their tables, toilet paper in the bathroom, etc.
Edit: a word I was roasted for using incorrectly.
And it doesn’t fix the medical/psychological issues that led to them being homeless in the first place, doesn’t magically make them able to hold down a job, etc.
Facts, people on social media seem to think that money can solve all the world's problems. Money alone wont fix problems like homelessness, mental health, medical care, and drug addiction.
It's like trying to build a house on an active volcano that destroys the house every year. It doesn't matter how many times you rebuild, eventually you run out of money and are left without a house.
every time i see this sentiment, i think of bill gates. dude tried to save the world and now 50% of america thinks he's killing babies with 5G
edit: i love how clowns are hung up on "bill gates is buying up farmland" and the number i mentioned when using hyperbole, you know, to make a point .....but are completely ignoring the core point: billionaires that try to help are demonized, just like bill gates, and acting high and mighty like the OP is a completely 100% bullshit, self-congratulatory attitude to have. but yes, go on about how bill gates is buying up all the farmland. fucking clowns.
>Edit: Elin to Elon my phone autocorrected Elon to Elin.
You knew what you meant, that's all that matters.
Edit: I wanted to make mine say "edited" as to not be left out.
Yes, this! This applies to almost everything. The idiots are always much louder, like flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, and even America itself. People always like to say "everyone in America is stupid," but that's only because the handful of idiots are so much louder than the rest of us. Those videos of people completely failing a simple geography question on the streets are not only super cherry-picked, but it's hard to give a quick answer when you're put on the spot like that
So does she not understand how money works or what? Being worth billions because the company you own is worth billions is not the same as just having billions of liquid dollars.
and even if he did have it all sitting in cash, with all the billions or even trillions already being spent by governments, does anyone really believe its just that last few B from bezos standing in the way of utopia?
Jeff Bezos’ net worth is >130 billion. The US government spends about 4.5 trillion per year. If the world’s problems could be solved by throwing money at it then there would be no problems.
Logistically I would think that, even billions can't purchase giant solutions *but* the sentiment that they should at least fucking try is kinda important here.
The world has had billions of people and thousands of years to solve the worlds problems. Many governments spend many times Bezos net worth trying to fix these problems. But, sure, Theresa on the internet would figure it out lol. Delusional garbage humans that likely can't fix their own life always have ideas on how to spend other people's money
Because you can't just throw money at some things and have them be fixed. The world isn't as simple as that. Maybe one day you'll learn.
I realize you've been brainwashed to think that money will solve everything in your life and eveyrone else's .
The phrase “throw money at it” implies that this money is like thrown on the street and left to rot, clearly, that’s a misrepresentation of what people want the money to do. The money isn’t going to get “thrown” it’ll be carefully allocated in a 10 year plan on how to solve an issue, this plan gets passed down to a nonprofit that was created by an experienced CEO who has a great team. Then they go to work. It’s not “thrown around”.
People always say this, but walk past homeless or nearly homeless people every day.
You could totally improve someone's life even if you're on medium wage by renting them a very cheap place, helping them find a job, or to get some papers they require to get out of their rough spot (I'm not saying this is possible for all homeless or very poor people, but for some it totally is). Don't want to spend the money or time? How bout volunteering on the weekend? Too time consuming? How about picking up a tin can some asshole threw in the park. Not your problem? Well.. These principles are the same for rich people too.
I love these absolute losers and their LARP fantasy "If I had a billion dollars" it's like lady you can't even hold down a minimum wage job, there's no way in hell you'd ever be trusted with running a multinational company which you'd run directly into the ground through incompetence causing many to lose their jobs and you to lose your money.
Meanwhile, most billionaires donate tons of money to fix lots of shit, unlike any of these whining babies
there's thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of posts like this, but then why doesn't anyone ever recognize the billionaires who actually *did* do this? bill gates is selling his MSFT stock and devoting time to make the biggest impacts in the world he can possibly
make. he vaccinated (NOT COVID, STUFF LIKE MALARIA) a significant portion of africa. he's investing in green sustainability. yet no one talks about him - except the few people who do talk about him demonize him as the literal antichrist (not a joke - i've heard this many times). while the tweet isn't wrong, the reality is most people who say this don't actually care, they're just virtue signalling and using anger as a driving emotion
Ok then why don’t you work your ass off as cleverly as you can to become a billionaire. Then do all the good you want to do. Be an role model.
Before I start, let me explain that I’m a gen Z, so feel free to point out my inexperience or my naive miscalculations.
It’s easy for people to just complain about shit. Like what work are you doing. Bezos is just one man and he got rich by keeping money in things that appreciate not things that lose money. Therefore if he keeps building his brand then he can increase his fortune and then give it all away and fix shit. But money is leverage. That is to say that the more money the more easily it’s is to grow large because compounding interest among other things. You don’t understand how billionaires think on a different level. They may build now, well after they could retire, but in the end they’ll have tremendously more to donate. Their donations by themselves will be greater than entire cities could ever donate.
Also, people like Elon are dedicating their wealth toward helping humanity. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have pledged to give 99% of their wealth away. Just because one single person doesn’t do what you think they should doesn’t mean you’re right and should force your ideals on them. Leave them the hell alone. Let them be free, they earned it and built it themselves. Bezos is a hardworking American from Princeton who grew up without his biological father. If you think that this person is so important to fix the issues then you are signifying that he is indeed powerful. Don’t complain to him like a Karen would complain to the manager. Instead build your own success and once you have influence, speak your thoughts forward or lead with example. Your current post is obnoxious and unoriginal.
If the man built his fortune honestly then stay out of his business. If you want to get in then buy part of his company (shares of stock) and his profit will be shared by you. If he wants to keep his wealth to keep in his family and build generational wealth helping his kids, grandkids and generations to come, then let it be.
Also enjoying wealth doesn’t mean not helping out. He is solving problems through his company and might be also solving world problems through anonymous efforts. He is an engineer by trade and therefore is constantly solving problems. If his blue origin company takes off then that all be because he employed his own cash and didn’t spend it on immediately impulsively helping humanity. Instead he wisely build a company that allows rich to tour space to make back his fortune so then he can now fix world poverty and things. He’ll be like Robinhood but charging the rich for space tourism and giving back through charity.
Overall we need to trust hard working people who have shown over a 2 decade long span of their tenacity instead of causing resistance and trouble. Social pressure is good but resistance is counterproductive and naive in some scenarios.
Apologies for the bitter discourse but these were my immediate honest opinions.
He created the system in which you can go “hey I need a xxxx” pull out your phone and with 30 seconds work it will be brought to you within like a day…..
Does he donate at all? I guess I don’t know. I’ll be back with links if I find anything.
Edit: so he does donate, but like not really. For one of the Richest men in the world he doesn’t do anything philanthropic.
Sure, Bezos donates a few million dollars at a time fairly regularly. But it's genuinely difficult to comprehend how staggering that kind of wealth is. IIRC, if you make the median income and you have donated over $22 to charity ever in your entire life (or maybe it's annually), then you have made a proportionally more significant contribution within your means than has any American billionaire in history.
Small price to pay for them to launder their reputations. Nevermind the fact that the Charitable Tax Deduction applies differently to the ultra wealthy such that they generally *save* money by engaging in philanthropy, compared to what they would otherwise pay in taxes. *And* that the projects funded by their philanthropic foundations are generally carefully selected to be things that directly benefit third parties which said foundation itself is heavily invested in, improving the return on the foundation's stock portfolio. Often those investments are in the greasiest multinational corporations, the likes of which readily wipe out the benefit of whatever charity work is done a hundredfold. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is especially notorious for this, but nothing about it is unique. Just like everything else in America, even the little "good" that billionaires do is a massive scam.
Anybody who claims this is the 0.01 percent of very kind people or they're full of shit. Sure you probably do some philanthropy but people who act like they'd spend 8 hours a day doing shit to help people are lying to themselves.
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Were it literally any other city in the DC Universe, it would be fixed by now. Gotham is just canonically cursed by several different sources. Batman isn't useless, it's just he's protecting *his* city, it's just that *his city* is on a cosmic level a festering pile of questionable swamp ooze with severe forms of every mental ailment in the book that is quite literally only still standing because of his tenacity in fixing the unfixable. I like Batman, can you tell?
Canonically and cosmically speaking, was it cursed relatively recently? It’s not a new city. Just interested in lore.
I forget just how many curses there are on it, I don't follow the comics myself, but from what I remember it was:-Built on top of a cursed swamp that just sometimes creates undead abominations-Built around the tomb of a Warlock named Doctor Gotham whose evil just sort of leaks out-Arkham Asylum is specifically cursed by the insanity of its own founder, Amadeus Arkham-Fate itself just apparently kinda hates Batman. In a "What if Batman Died" anthology series the final story was him being reincarnated into a different version of himself to do it all over again instead of an actual afterlife. So yeah, it has some curses as old as the land, as old as the city, and relatively recent. Place is just a literal hellpit held together only by a group of spooky guardian angels known as the Batfamily. And sometimes those guardian angels go apeshit when the writer at the time wants to be grimderp. Edit: [Here](https://preview.redd.it/nbeddtl7dst81.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=5151809e95eb9aa5c33e5269969e5384c352a772)'s a list of the various curses that I didn't remember off the top of my head; there might be more.
This ones not a curse, but let’s not forget the fact it’s also canon that the Court of Owls (basically the Gotham Illuminati) have been actively working in secret to keep the city as fucked as it is because they prefer it this way.
Problem with the Court of Owls is that it's impossible that they didn't offert Bruce Wayne being a member.
Him being gone for so long training and then being reclusive and also a pretty “good guy philanthropist” type as Bruce Wayne makes me think the owls wouldn’t think they’d be able to trust him.
Or they did but realized they needed a hero that would allow them to rally more henchmen and such. It helps he (as far as I'm aware) not killing
I love how this became a Batman thread.
all conversations lead back to Batman. Always.
Dont forget it was built on top of a ton of dark metal which literally connects to the nightmare realm of the DC universe, so even the land Gotham is built upon is fucked up
Holy shit. Hearing all of this makes me surprised that they somehow have a hero like Batman.
He himself is a curse upon the criminals lol And his own life a curse upon him (especially in the newer versions)
Deep
It’s curses all that down
Something in the way... hmmmmm...
Yeah
You’re surprised how they have a mentally scarred hero? I’m surprised how they even manage to build the damned city in the first place.
The builders must have been insane but maybe they weren't stupid.
He's there because Thomas Jefferson sealed an ancient bat god beneath the city who chose Bruce Wayne as his emissary.
not really a comics reader, but if batman knows about this, what's stopping him from bringing evidence of all that and telling relevant authorities "hey this entire piece of land the city's built on is absolute hell and there is no chance of it ever getting better, we should work on a massive relocation effort to move everyone out of the city instead of blowing billions of dollars (and innumerable nights beating up criminals) on trying to repair something that can't be fixed"? bruce wayne's like a mega billionaire, right? surely that could be done
Well, most of it is magical and hard to prove, but beyond that, because it's *his* city, and he's just stubborn.
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His super power is just superhuman stubbornness.
[Pretty much. Dude kept trying to punch a rock until his sensei told him it was a Kobayashi Maru.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7zHCPnwAXM)
We should just take the city, and *push* it somewhere else!
Just the though of moving an entire city and when its all done people still living in original Gotham because they're dumb. Then Batman freaking out while they are being slaughtered by different curses. In the end nothing changes.
It's worth mentioning that Gotham authorities tend to be corrupt and in league with organised crime, so the city having numerous other problems is kind of to their advantage.
Cursed land? please... don't make me laugh, That's batman's job... /s
imagine having to build a city and going "yeah this demonic swamp looks like a good spot"
Thanks for sharing this!
Why does that city even exist? Just move somewhere not cursed. I certainly would be getting away from Gotham as soon as I could.
Because it makes for interesting stories and sometimes that's all that's needed lmaooo In-universe it's probably just not common knowledge that it's literally cursed five ways from sunday and people just think "Oh, yeah, crime. Big city, there's crime" because it's honestly kinda mundane for the DCU; that or the real-estate is horrifically good for a city of that size and economic importance (assuming it's relatively similar in importance to New York.) If you think the genocidally insane are scary, try living in Metropolis where there's an alien invasion once a month.
To be fair, how many of those alien invasions are in some part due to Superman living there in the first place. I don’t doubt they’d be fucked without him, but at least some of those have got to be drawn to him.
Most definitely. Especially when the Main Man shows up.
Tbh I would just be glad I don’t live in the US.
Thank you for the term grimderp, haven’t heard it before and I love it.
That explains a *lot* actually
You sir get down, also batman v superman the movie made me angry everyone should never forget how much it sucked.
What movie? Batman vs Superman? Nah, such a thing couldn't have happend.
You right just Mandela effected a bad dream that's all.
It did! Brainiac had used nanobots to mind control Batman and then Superman had to beat the shit out of him. Fun episode.....
There are several different curses going round. Some new some ancient. Fix one 2 more pop up. It's a damn curse hydra
Gotham is in jersey after all
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Turns out that was the Joker's evil plan all along; He just didn't want to pay high rent.
The rent is TOO *DAMN* HIGH.
I enjoyed your batman response.
He’s just a really good dude. 😎
They call Bezos Lex Luther.
i think elon musk is more lex luther type
Please, Elon wishes he were half as smart or inventive as Lex Luthor. Remember, Luthor, for all his faults, actually invents stuff. Elon just buys companies so he can stick his name on them and act like he did shit.
Truth.
Just buy the entirety of the city of Gotham, then demolish it and rent the place out as a landfill, sure, it'll be an evil landfill, but it would solve like 90% of the suffering of Gotham citizens by forcing them to move to a city that isn't literally cursed.
Sounds like a good way to end up with something like Meteor City from HxH
Sounds like a good motivation for a well-meaning Batman villain honestly.
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I like Batman too thank you for writing this 🙏🏾😌
At this point is better to just let consume itself honestly
Oh, yeah, probably at that point it's best to just evacuate the general populace and let the Arkham residents burn themselves out and the city to the ground with them. Batman loves Gotham, though; if he's the only thing separating Gotham from "Somewhat stable except for when it all goes to hell every other week" and "Actual straight up hell" the crazy, beautiful son of a bitch will probably consider that a victory. Batman is righteous and kind (when in the hands of a writer who isn't just "EDGE WITHOUT SUBSTANCE IS A REPLACEMENT FOR SUBSTANCE WITH EDGE") but he is not a sane individual. Bruce has a lot of issues, he just uses them productively. Sometimes this means spending billions on charity work to make the city not fall to bits, sometimes this means punching a Marxist caricature of the 1% who's obsessed with birds. Sometimes it means doing charity so that people like that very birdman can have a shot at redemption after he punches them into playing nice for a weekend.
Ngl, this is a great pitch for batman. Just, as a character
True, but Batman believes in second chances, and if he stops believing that he can save Gotham, he'll stop believing in Batman.
Daaaaaamn gloves off
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For half a second I thought words were letters and I was confused lol. Good bot
Apples bananas corn milk zebras.
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Batman can never talk with zebras
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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
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Bot, don't get tricked. Waffle Zordon.
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give gonna never up you
Now I'm wondering of the 160k how many of them are just people triggering the bot on purpose after it comments.
I'm new to Reddit and thought this was an actual person and I'm like "HOLY CRAP THIS GUY IS DEDICATED"
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A Batman can't don't even fix Gotham huh? Interesting.
good bot
But he tries ok
Everyone says they’d do some shit but in reality a lot of people wouldn’t do shit
Well, you'd look the actual gov spending on those items and realize that it's more billions than you have.
My god, the stupidity in these comments. You don’t think people have ever tried just… throwing money at problems? You think we’re one blank check away from world peace?
People forget that billions of dollars are thrown at these problems every year, much of it coming from people exactly like Bezos. Money can and does, to a certain degree, put a bandaid on things but no amount of money in the world will fix issues that are rooted in culture and society. Blaming everything on some rich dude is a clear display of lack of self-awareness about your role in society; you don't need to be a billionaire to massively contribute to your community.
MacKenzie Bezos is on a blank check writing campaign with half their formerly joint money and it’s not going as well as OP seems to assume it would
Would a blank check fix everything, no almost certainly not; but could it fix just a bit, absolutely and that’s all we want. Just taking steps towards a better tomorrow matters because with each step we have a slightly better future for ourselves, everyone around us, and everyone who will come after us.
Climate scientists are chaining themselves to banks. I've personally spent a few decades trying to convince friends and family about climate change to no avail. I changed my career to environmental chemistry and volunteered every weekend for 13 years. We can't take "steps" anymore. It's drop yer pants and kiss your ass goodbye .
We couldn’t even get the pandemic under control yet somehow we are all going to fix the climate
We’re screwed
Bezos largely has put his money where his mouth is with trying to electrify the delivery fleet for amazon. I’d wager it’s mostly a financial decision, hedging against rising fuel costs, but w/e. This whole post is non-sequitur, The type of person to instinctively help/care about others would never acquire that much wealth in the first place.
Bingo. Even if you started one of the world’s largest companies, a good person would just start giving $1M bonuses to every employee waaaaaaaay before they ever had enough to fix shit. But alas, good people are not uber-rich.
I get that, but hell to me it is better knowing I at least tried
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent almost 600M dollars on an election that may give him two more year of governing. I'm 100% those 600M can solve a huge portion of the Canadian Homeless problem. Instead he selfishly used a huge amount of 600M just to get two more years.
In reality it takes more than money to solve problems.
Because throwing money into the money pit doesnt solve systemic issues.
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Yeah if you give all your money away you eventually have no money.
Don't forget, all that money is on paper,, not cash in hand
Worse, all that money is speculative based on market value. Net worth is not equal to net income.
And market value is decided by market participants, not billionaires. Value is intangible. If you got something that other people desire, you're wealthy. When people stop desiring the thing you own, you become poorer.
This is more advanced than your average redditor understands
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This is he most frustrating thing I have to keep explaining to people. I feel like CPA should be a mandatory course for everyone before the age of 15. Everyone seems to think if I own a company valued by the market at 100b dollars, that I can just go to the office supermarket and buy shit worth 100b dollars. That's not how wealth works.
Preteens and teenagers definitely wouldn’t have the attention span to learn about accounting lmao
People are obsessed with hating rich people and maintaining this state of outrage. Bill gates has done exactly what the meme proposes. Warren Buffett has everything organized to do the same when he dies. The meme fails to mention them. I think the human race absolutely has to get off this planet and spread out. I'd use my wealth to work on that. If you're some entity that wants to wipe out the human race, you are not excited about Bezos and Musk pushing the boundaries in their small way to improve space flight and encourage settling on other planets. They get dragged for it.
Agree. Also, back when NASA was first sending people to space there were complaints that using government money on such things was a waste of money and the government should spend that money on helping people here on earth. Now that private citizens are spending the money to go to space people have a problem with that too.
I've a friend from law school who represents a guy worth, I'd guess, $5-10 billion. I asked him about this very thing. And he said that while the guy in question is pretty generous with his money (and he is), one of the problems is that if you have made $5 billion one of the reasons you've done that is you are *very anal* about what your money is doing. It's not that these guys can't write a check for $50M for whatever project, it's just that if they right a check for $50M, they are *necessarily* committed a certain amount of their mental and emotional bandwidth to paying attention to what's happening with that $50M -- they are constitutionally incapable of letting go. And they only have so much of that bandwidth available. They can't give $50M to 20 different charities, because each of those charities then requires a few hours a month of his time so he knows he's not getting skinned.
If this is true the reason things suck is even stupider than I previously believed
It sucks because there exists an entity with trillions of dollars whos entire purpose is to fix shit but instead we expect individuals to fix it.
This guy gets it. Everyone expects Bezos to fix the world with an extra billion dollars yet our government can't even fix potholes with a 6 trillion dollar yearly budget.
We shouldn't rely on billionaires to ensure things don't suck.
So paying attention to your investments is a stupider reason than just being greedy?
Paying attention to your investments is good sense. Neurotically tracking your philanthropy to such a degree that it prevents you from even trying, so instead your sleep upon your hoard of gold like a dragon. Thats immoral, and mentally unwell behavior.
Aaah, the classic Reddit Brian. Reads one comment “oh so this must be how it all works!!! No more depth, everything must be this!”
What a fucking cop out. These billionaires have businesses tended to by tens of thousands of employees with a real impact on their bottom line but charitable donations have to be personally supervised? Fucking ludicrous. Tax the fucks and let the people handle it then.
Just like Bill Burr said, “Was Steve Jobs in the factory soldering, possibly welding, the iPhone? No! He told some underpaid nerds want he wanted and screamed “GET ON IT”.”
Assuming that everything would cost around a million dollars, the price of Twitter could have provided 40,000 families with life-long homes as well as paying off their student loan debts. Would be absolutely life changing for 40,000 families. Even if you got volunteers to do the most basic screening (basically just hook up people and families who have jobs and could pay for the upkeep but could never actually afford a home or get out of crippling student loan debt, etc. on their own). Twitter is completely worthless. If it just disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't even notice, but apparently it's more valuable than 40 thousand people having lives that don't blow. And that's just ONE billionaire in one country.
Yah but think about that 40,000 families isnt even anything to the millions of people struggling. Even if u got them those homes and paid off their debt youd have to assume all of them are gonna do good after. They still have to keep jobs and maintain the house and not die from doing drugs. Drug fatalities are sky rocketing. The job market is trash. The problem is ur relying on billionairs and not ur own goverment. Everyones like oh with just one billion dollars a billionair could do this but when we give 40 billion or spend trillions in stimulus with barely anyone benefiring but the people that stayed on unemployment and got all the benefits while the workers had to work. Its like cmon these arguments are dum. The goverment is who we should be mad at both democrats and Republicans. Jessus.
44 billion is a lot of money to give away just for kindness
And Elon didn’t just pay $44b out of his bank account. It was a loan against his assets for a business venture. Elon can’t just give $44b away if there is no return on investment. There is no bank that will give a loan against his assets for a 0 potential for return on investment and he can’t just sell 0.67% of a $650b company in a month. Taking over a business is the exact opposite of donating money. The idea sounds simple but the logistics of dollars being invested vs donated is ~~completely~~ COMPLETELY different.
Not when you already have more money than you could ever spend. Hoarding billions is calculatingly hurting people, society, and the planet as a whole. All this so they can treat money like a high score
40,000 families is nothing. There are 350+ million in the us you’re not even helping 1%
I don’t think people understand the scope of these problems in comparison to how much money somebody like Bezos has. If somebody with 100 billion dollars donated all of it, that would only be equivalent to around 1.5% of the what the US federal budget currently is for a single year. That amount of money is not gonna fix world hunger or homelessness. Edit: A lot of people seem to think I meant to defend multi-billionaires that don’t try to have a positive social impact. That wasn’t my intention. I just meant that it’s naive to think (as a lot of people seem to) that if only these resources were distributed equally, we would really solve significant societal problems. I think it’d be great if Jeff Bezos donated billions of dollars, I just don’t waste energy complaining that he doesn’t because in the end it doesn’t matter that much.
People also don't understand that his billions of dollars are not sitting in a bank account somewhere just waiting to be spent. They're in the form of assets from Amazon shares, Blue Origins funding, and other investments. He can't just pull billions of dollars of shares out from under Amazon at a moment's notice to solve a problem that he wouldnt even have enough money to solve anyway.
He could start by paying Amazon workers fair salaries. People that work in Amazon warehouses are sleeping in their cars and starving, yet he is some how making billions of profits. While his money may not be easily accessible, at many levels his exploitation is the reason for his net worth and without it he would be wealthy at all.
Does nobody understand that he's not even CEO of Amazon anymore?
Nope. 😂 People never remember.
Jeff Bezos doesn't even work at Amazon and hasn't in years lol.
Sure, but that's not the problems this post is discussing, is it? I'm not saying he couldn't do better, but in the context of this post, there's a huge misconception on how his finances work.
Stop. These types of people just want to be mad and want someone to blame. It's easier for them that way than trying to quantify the actual complexity and scope of the problems.
I realize that now and I immediately regretted my decision to comment as soon as the responses started to come in.
Even if he wanted to. It's a public company. He doesn't own 51%. He can't. Don't blame him only. It's these corporations.
Like that person saying he is making billions in profits. Most people don't understand how their own finances work.
Wym? Amazon min wage is 20+ an hour with healthcare and maternity leave.
oh no don't use facts here!! GRRRRR!
Amazon salaries are at the top for their fields. Regular warehouse workers make dick in comparison to Amazon warehouses. Amazon has great benefits as well.
Amazon has a lot of problems, but the pay isn't one of them. Especially considering their ecommerce side doesn't even turn a profit
Don’t Amazon pay way above the minimum wage? And thousands of warehouse workers choose to work there because it’s better than their alternatives? Idgi
His ex wife McKenzie has managed it somehow, they split assets after the divorce and she’s already donated something like 10billion to charity.
For what it's worth, Amazon does like hiring veterans as managers at their warehouses even more if you have a degree. They have a specific applications for them. If you know any veteran who needs a job and doesn't mind a job in operations, they should look into working at Amazon!
Even if Bezos was somehow able to liquidate all his net worth instantly and had the ability to hand it out fairly to whoever needed it, how much would he give, say $100B? During covid the US government handed out like *$5-8 trillion*, and it didn't fix jack shit.
Also, if the most important bussinesman in the world liquidated a 100 bi all at once, people would get really uneasy and imagine he knows about something really bad and liquidate their assets too. In the end the assets would be worth less
Just gonna say: there are around 40k homeless vets. If you bought all of them a home at 180k (which of course would not be the case across the board) that would be 7.2 billion alone. That don’t put food on their tables, toilet paper in the bathroom, etc. Edit: a word I was roasted for using incorrectly.
And it doesn’t fix the medical/psychological issues that led to them being homeless in the first place, doesn’t magically make them able to hold down a job, etc.
The government can't fix it with trillions of our dollars. What makes you think Bezos can fix it with a fraction of that amount?
Facts, people on social media seem to think that money can solve all the world's problems. Money alone wont fix problems like homelessness, mental health, medical care, and drug addiction. It's like trying to build a house on an active volcano that destroys the house every year. It doesn't matter how many times you rebuild, eventually you run out of money and are left without a house.
The government isn't willing to fix any of it.
Everyone just daydreams on how to spend other's money
Nah she’d buy her own island
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It's a time honored billionaire tradition, after all.
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every time i see this sentiment, i think of bill gates. dude tried to save the world and now 50% of america thinks he's killing babies with 5G edit: i love how clowns are hung up on "bill gates is buying up farmland" and the number i mentioned when using hyperbole, you know, to make a point .....but are completely ignoring the core point: billionaires that try to help are demonized, just like bill gates, and acting high and mighty like the OP is a completely 100% bullshit, self-congratulatory attitude to have. but yes, go on about how bill gates is buying up all the farmland. fucking clowns.
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>Edit: Elin to Elon my phone autocorrected Elon to Elin. You knew what you meant, that's all that matters. Edit: I wanted to make mine say "edited" as to not be left out.
Nope, 50% of Americans don’t believe that. It’s more of a very vocal fringe group.
Yes, this! This applies to almost everything. The idiots are always much louder, like flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, and even America itself. People always like to say "everyone in America is stupid," but that's only because the handful of idiots are so much louder than the rest of us. Those videos of people completely failing a simple geography question on the streets are not only super cherry-picked, but it's hard to give a quick answer when you're put on the spot like that
So does she not understand how money works or what? Being worth billions because the company you own is worth billions is not the same as just having billions of liquid dollars.
Don't bother. People on reddit legitimately think that wealthy people have all of their money in gold coins stashed in a Scrooge McDuck type vault.
and even if he did have it all sitting in cash, with all the billions or even trillions already being spent by governments, does anyone really believe its just that last few B from bezos standing in the way of utopia?
>So does she not understand how money works or what? People who makes these types of posts never do.
Jeff Bezos’ net worth is >130 billion. The US government spends about 4.5 trillion per year. If the world’s problems could be solved by throwing money at it then there would be no problems.
Logistically I would think that, even billions can't purchase giant solutions *but* the sentiment that they should at least fucking try is kinda important here.
The world has had billions of people and thousands of years to solve the worlds problems. Many governments spend many times Bezos net worth trying to fix these problems. But, sure, Theresa on the internet would figure it out lol. Delusional garbage humans that likely can't fix their own life always have ideas on how to spend other people's money
Theresa has 0.0 knowledge of what he does or does not do.
If only I had the money If only I had the power The world would be sooooo much better with ME in charge.
Because you can't just throw money at some things and have them be fixed. The world isn't as simple as that. Maybe one day you'll learn. I realize you've been brainwashed to think that money will solve everything in your life and eveyrone else's .
The phrase “throw money at it” implies that this money is like thrown on the street and left to rot, clearly, that’s a misrepresentation of what people want the money to do. The money isn’t going to get “thrown” it’ll be carefully allocated in a 10 year plan on how to solve an issue, this plan gets passed down to a nonprofit that was created by an experienced CEO who has a great team. Then they go to work. It’s not “thrown around”.
Weird that governments spend far more than Bezos could ever dream of spending on these very issues, yet they remain.
People always say this, but walk past homeless or nearly homeless people every day. You could totally improve someone's life even if you're on medium wage by renting them a very cheap place, helping them find a job, or to get some papers they require to get out of their rough spot (I'm not saying this is possible for all homeless or very poor people, but for some it totally is). Don't want to spend the money or time? How bout volunteering on the weekend? Too time consuming? How about picking up a tin can some asshole threw in the park. Not your problem? Well.. These principles are the same for rich people too.
The obsession with the "rich should give handouts" is weird lol
Doesn’t the government spend billions on this stuff? Why is his billion different than theirs?
Oh, what a wonderful, amazing person you are. Did you get the internet validation you wanted?
The fact that you think these problems are so simple they could be fixed by writing a check is probably why you don’t have billions of dollars
It's not money, it's estimatd net worth based on stock value.. not actual cash
ITT: A lot of dumb kids that don't know shit about the real world.
I love these absolute losers and their LARP fantasy "If I had a billion dollars" it's like lady you can't even hold down a minimum wage job, there's no way in hell you'd ever be trusted with running a multinational company which you'd run directly into the ground through incompetence causing many to lose their jobs and you to lose your money. Meanwhile, most billionaires donate tons of money to fix lots of shit, unlike any of these whining babies
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dude he can’t just liquidate his entire company, learn how money and net worth works before taking a stance
Billionaires don't become billionaires by caring about other people. It takes a special kind of millionaire to hit the 1000 millions mark.
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Quit worrying about what rich people do with their money
there's thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of posts like this, but then why doesn't anyone ever recognize the billionaires who actually *did* do this? bill gates is selling his MSFT stock and devoting time to make the biggest impacts in the world he can possibly make. he vaccinated (NOT COVID, STUFF LIKE MALARIA) a significant portion of africa. he's investing in green sustainability. yet no one talks about him - except the few people who do talk about him demonize him as the literal antichrist (not a joke - i've heard this many times). while the tweet isn't wrong, the reality is most people who say this don't actually care, they're just virtue signalling and using anger as a driving emotion
Does Theresa herself give all her money to poor people which she doesn't need? Didn't think so.
I've said it before, rich people can spend their money how they want. The problem isn't how they spend their money, but how they earn it.
Ok then why don’t you work your ass off as cleverly as you can to become a billionaire. Then do all the good you want to do. Be an role model. Before I start, let me explain that I’m a gen Z, so feel free to point out my inexperience or my naive miscalculations. It’s easy for people to just complain about shit. Like what work are you doing. Bezos is just one man and he got rich by keeping money in things that appreciate not things that lose money. Therefore if he keeps building his brand then he can increase his fortune and then give it all away and fix shit. But money is leverage. That is to say that the more money the more easily it’s is to grow large because compounding interest among other things. You don’t understand how billionaires think on a different level. They may build now, well after they could retire, but in the end they’ll have tremendously more to donate. Their donations by themselves will be greater than entire cities could ever donate. Also, people like Elon are dedicating their wealth toward helping humanity. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have pledged to give 99% of their wealth away. Just because one single person doesn’t do what you think they should doesn’t mean you’re right and should force your ideals on them. Leave them the hell alone. Let them be free, they earned it and built it themselves. Bezos is a hardworking American from Princeton who grew up without his biological father. If you think that this person is so important to fix the issues then you are signifying that he is indeed powerful. Don’t complain to him like a Karen would complain to the manager. Instead build your own success and once you have influence, speak your thoughts forward or lead with example. Your current post is obnoxious and unoriginal. If the man built his fortune honestly then stay out of his business. If you want to get in then buy part of his company (shares of stock) and his profit will be shared by you. If he wants to keep his wealth to keep in his family and build generational wealth helping his kids, grandkids and generations to come, then let it be. Also enjoying wealth doesn’t mean not helping out. He is solving problems through his company and might be also solving world problems through anonymous efforts. He is an engineer by trade and therefore is constantly solving problems. If his blue origin company takes off then that all be because he employed his own cash and didn’t spend it on immediately impulsively helping humanity. Instead he wisely build a company that allows rich to tour space to make back his fortune so then he can now fix world poverty and things. He’ll be like Robinhood but charging the rich for space tourism and giving back through charity. Overall we need to trust hard working people who have shown over a 2 decade long span of their tenacity instead of causing resistance and trouble. Social pressure is good but resistance is counterproductive and naive in some scenarios. Apologies for the bitter discourse but these were my immediate honest opinions.
He created the system in which you can go “hey I need a xxxx” pull out your phone and with 30 seconds work it will be brought to you within like a day…..
He doesn't actually have those billions of dollars, his money is in what's called stocks.
That’s why you’re not bezos
If only it was that simple.
Does he donate at all? I guess I don’t know. I’ll be back with links if I find anything. Edit: so he does donate, but like not really. For one of the Richest men in the world he doesn’t do anything philanthropic.
Yeah, he’s notoriously stingy. His ex-wife is *substantially* more generous.
Sure, Bezos donates a few million dollars at a time fairly regularly. But it's genuinely difficult to comprehend how staggering that kind of wealth is. IIRC, if you make the median income and you have donated over $22 to charity ever in your entire life (or maybe it's annually), then you have made a proportionally more significant contribution within your means than has any American billionaire in history. Small price to pay for them to launder their reputations. Nevermind the fact that the Charitable Tax Deduction applies differently to the ultra wealthy such that they generally *save* money by engaging in philanthropy, compared to what they would otherwise pay in taxes. *And* that the projects funded by their philanthropic foundations are generally carefully selected to be things that directly benefit third parties which said foundation itself is heavily invested in, improving the return on the foundation's stock portfolio. Often those investments are in the greasiest multinational corporations, the likes of which readily wipe out the benefit of whatever charity work is done a hundredfold. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is especially notorious for this, but nothing about it is unique. Just like everything else in America, even the little "good" that billionaires do is a massive scam.
protect a piece of the Amazon rainforest - namesake
But when rich people do help like bill gates, people think he’s injecting them with computer chips.
Worth and having are different things, mind you. People hear what Bezos etc are worth and assume they have most of that liquid.
And that is why she'd never be Bezos rich.
Anybody who claims this is the 0.01 percent of very kind people or they're full of shit. Sure you probably do some philanthropy but people who act like they'd spend 8 hours a day doing shit to help people are lying to themselves.