Well you can do good and have a lot of money, I mean I think the biggest problem is that they’re unable to do it without having more income in the process. Maybe there aren’t as many as we’d like to think but I hold the naive and simplistic hope, that humanity over profits will exist in a future billionaire.
The rich person dilemma of: If I help everyone, I won’t have any money left. Doesn’t apply to people like musk
The 2,000$ stimulus checks we got before covid… That shit went to groceries, appliances, new cookware and clothing…
I didn’t pick the most fashionable clothing, the most expensive cookware, the most expensive grocery store or the best of the best with appliances but I used that money on what I needed and you know what it made me realize:
$2,000 goes fucking quick. I’m not defending the superduper rich but I am saying I can partially understand how if you just give and give and give to every cause in society, if you were worth like 10mil and your assets were already declining with no substantial gains to recoup the major net losses. eventually you hit the point of: If I help everyone who needs it, I won’t have any money left to survive and as bullshit as it is that it would likely be that way for someone who has that much money, there’s a weird understanding there and maybe it’s the growing up in capitalism that the thought of, “If I keep giving I won’t have anything left for myself,” mindset is even alive in me but I think it’s survival and I do fully understand and appreciate the difference between survival and greed.
I hate to even say it like this but the people making the least don’t give to the people who have hardly anything every single time. Like someone who’s working a minimum wage job isn’t going to give to the person begging on the street with a cup asking for spare change or even saying what it’s for, every single time. That’s because if you did that every single time, you most likely would start running out of money.
We can all agree though, once you have enough money to where you’re building your own space exploration company… give the dude begging 500$ and walk away. Like if you have so much money you can open a suitcase, throw the money up in the air let it fall and make snow angels with money… fuckin’ redo some hospitals and schools. Do something other than keep looking at the dollar signs.
First, Harris Rosen put a program in place for a neighborhood and changed the lives of a generation in a generation. He had enough money after to do it again.
Second, while $2000 USD is nice for you, but goes quick, there are 6 countries in 2025 where that is at least 4 years’ of median income, and about 67 (!) where that is at least a year’s median income. That $500M Elon blew trying to subvert democracy could have given 250k people enough security to actually try to change their lives for the better instead of just surviving.
Carefully targeted funding can make a difference in nations with a high cost of living, and can impact even more people while requiring less discrimination in areas with a lower cost of living.
You mean 2,000$ in a different country where 2,000$ makes a difference, right? Where in the US is 2,000$ going to make a difference? Where is that going to change a life? The national average of rent is 1,175$ unless you’re on section 8 or have a rent controlled apartment at a severely lowered percent, that’s not going to do much in way of housing. Food is bullshit expensive it took 4 grocery trips to use ¼ of that 2,000$.
Unbranded lowest brand names clothing that are considered unbranded like Gildan (my favorite) are going up every 4 months. Temu clothes are total shit. …
… If this was 1996, 2000$ could change a life…
2000$ to 250k people in 2026 is not going to significantly change a single life in the US.
A high cost of living means the prices are higher meaning the money goes quicker… You’d be spending money on gas or transportation getting to cheaper areas…
That is specifically what I said, yes. It would take more money, and longer, to make a significant change in America, but as the example with Harris Rosen showed, it can still be done.
Well you can do good and have a lot of money, I mean I think the biggest problem is that they’re unable to do it without having more income in the process. Maybe there aren’t as many as we’d like to think but I hold the naive and simplistic hope, that humanity over profits will exist in a future billionaire.
The rich person dilemma of: If I help everyone, I won’t have any money left. Doesn’t apply to people like musk
The 2,000$ stimulus checks we got before covid… That shit went to groceries, appliances, new cookware and clothing…
I didn’t pick the most fashionable clothing, the most expensive cookware, the most expensive grocery store or the best of the best with appliances but I used that money on what I needed and you know what it made me realize:
$2,000 goes fucking quick. I’m not defending the superduper rich but I am saying I can partially understand how if you just give and give and give to every cause in society, if you were worth like 10mil and your assets were already declining with no substantial gains to recoup the major net losses. eventually you hit the point of: If I help everyone who needs it, I won’t have any money left to survive and as bullshit as it is that it would likely be that way for someone who has that much money, there’s a weird understanding there and maybe it’s the growing up in capitalism that the thought of, “If I keep giving I won’t have anything left for myself,” mindset is even alive in me but I think it’s survival and I do fully understand and appreciate the difference between survival and greed.
I hate to even say it like this but the people making the least don’t give to the people who have hardly anything every single time. Like someone who’s working a minimum wage job isn’t going to give to the person begging on the street with a cup asking for spare change or even saying what it’s for, every single time. That’s because if you did that every single time, you most likely would start running out of money.
We can all agree though, once you have enough money to where you’re building your own space exploration company… give the dude begging 500$ and walk away. Like if you have so much money you can open a suitcase, throw the money up in the air let it fall and make snow angels with money… fuckin’ redo some hospitals and schools. Do something other than keep looking at the dollar signs.
Two points to counter what you said here.
First, Harris Rosen put a program in place for a neighborhood and changed the lives of a generation in a generation. He had enough money after to do it again.
Second, while $2000 USD is nice for you, but goes quick, there are 6 countries in 2025 where that is at least 4 years’ of median income, and about 67 (!) where that is at least a year’s median income. That $500M Elon blew trying to subvert democracy could have given 250k people enough security to actually try to change their lives for the better instead of just surviving.
Carefully targeted funding can make a difference in nations with a high cost of living, and can impact even more people while requiring less discrimination in areas with a lower cost of living.
You mean 2,000$ in a different country where 2,000$ makes a difference, right? Where in the US is 2,000$ going to make a difference? Where is that going to change a life? The national average of rent is 1,175$ unless you’re on section 8 or have a rent controlled apartment at a severely lowered percent, that’s not going to do much in way of housing. Food is bullshit expensive it took 4 grocery trips to use ¼ of that 2,000$.
Unbranded lowest brand names clothing that are considered unbranded like Gildan (my favorite) are going up every 4 months. Temu clothes are total shit. …
… If this was 1996, 2000$ could change a life…
2000$ to 250k people in 2026 is not going to significantly change a single life in the US.
A high cost of living means the prices are higher meaning the money goes quicker… You’d be spending money on gas or transportation getting to cheaper areas…
That is specifically what I said, yes. It would take more money, and longer, to make a significant change in America, but as the example with Harris Rosen showed, it can still be done.