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Amazing to watch this man undo decades of pr firms and countless dollars spent by rich people to make themselves look good. Carnegie must be rolling in his grave. What a spectacle.
We're still in the middle of the second act. The third act starts in about 10 to 15 years when the unbridled philanthropy happens attempting to whitewash the actions of the second act in search of redemption.
I think Bill Gates might have inoculated the public against such PR.
Us old folks have lived through a lifetime with Bill Gates. The PR isn't for us. Its for the people born after he did all his bad stuff that never experienced it firsthand. They'll only see the philanthropy.
Rockefeller, Carnegie, and others did this successfully. When the Today Show comes on the air and the announcer says "Live from Rockefeller center..!" does anyone today think of the carnage John D left in his wake?
True. I guess I'm hoping his recent fuck up with keeping the COVID vaccine from being more widely distributed might galvanize the youths. That and the Epstein flight logs.
The philanthropy has nothing to do with PR. It’s tax evasion.
Tax avoidance is certainly one factor, but to dismiss old people's desire for legacy would be dishonest. If it was just for tax reasons, the person's name wouldn't be requested to be included in the philanthropic venture.
Example:
It could have been called the "New York Cancer Center" but it wasn't.
That’s as much just ego, honestly.
Like how Trump needs to put his name on literally every single thing that is his.
Ego is to Charmander as Legacy is to Charizard. Legacy is the superpowered version of ego.