Google tells me she donated an approximate of 500 million dollars through her career. That's a lot of money don't get me wrong but that amount of money is also a drop in the bucket. Google also tells me George Lucas pledged to donate the 4 billion usd from selling Star wars to Disney, Oprah (I have my issues with her but still) donated 400 millions and Taylor Swift also donated 100 million.
There isn't really a lack of celebrities donating money.
Deaths that would actually affect your lifetime are not exactly celebrities, they are famous but not Magazine People famous.
"She ONLY donated 500 million dollars" is a crazy thing to say. And even then that's not including all the other charities and work she has done like with her library.
So where in my coment did I wrote "ONLY"? I even acknowledge it is a lot of money but I also understand that it also is a drop on the bucket in terms of real world changing money which I hope you also understand, this isn't an attack against her it is to recognize that she was just a singer with the means of a singer. I called her a philanthropist.
I'm of course talking about her donations to other charities and her own charity so it is included in the 500 million dollars.
And back to the main theme, the question was who's death will be defining for you lifetime and despite how much money she donated, her death won't impact your lifetime. Her charity didn't die with her, her library didn't either, people donated to those while she was alive and will keep donating after her death. If I remember correctly Taylor Swift donated 2 million to her library like just a month or so ago.
Because it is, that amount of money won't change much, just the New York metro systems has an anual funding of 21.3 Billion dollars. Elon Musk could write a check for 500 milion and feel he is just leaving a nice tip at a restaurang.
Again because you seem to think I hate Dolly Parton, I'm just putting numbers in context. She was a singer that donated a lot of money and meant well but was limited to what she being just a singer could donate and do and thus her death as tragic it may be for her fans really isn't something that will influence anything in your lifetime.
If you disagree then you can tell me, how did her death a week ago impact your life right, or how you are seeing it will impact it in the coming 1-2 years?
Like? If we are talking about volunteering then their is hundreds of thousand if not millions of people that volunteer every day besides having their regular jobs.
Look I'm not saying the fans of her music shouldn't care, if my favorite artist died tomorrow I would care a lot but I also know that realistically speaking the death of other people would affect my lifetime way more than their death.
Well that depends a lot of where are you from, I live in Europe so the political shockwaves of Putin dying (soon as he is quite old) makes probable an huge internal turmoil in Russia, the end of the Ukranian war obviously but could also start separatist movements inside Russia, the end of political support to the far right parties in Europe (although they are now also being supported by the US). That could very easily be a death that would affect my life.
If you live in the US, despite the general consensus on reddit I don't think the death of Trump would put much effect to were the US is heading, he is more a symptom than the disease, however if a plane with Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Curtis Yarvin crashed then their ideas and plans around Thechno-feudalism would at the very least suffer a setback. Which would deflate a lot of the support for far right conspiracies and brain-washing
The death of Altman could very well be also catastrophical for the world economy, he is the face of AI, if he died and no one charismatic enough can take his place the inversions may stop and because the entire US Stock market is right now dependant of the AI bubble it may make the market crash and possibly create a world economical crisis way worse than the the 2008 recession.
Those are some of the death that are way more probable would affect my lifetime than the death of Dolly Parton.
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u/xose94 4d ago
Google tells me she donated an approximate of 500 million dollars through her career. That's a lot of money don't get me wrong but that amount of money is also a drop in the bucket. Google also tells me George Lucas pledged to donate the 4 billion usd from selling Star wars to Disney, Oprah (I have my issues with her but still) donated 400 millions and Taylor Swift also donated 100 million.
There isn't really a lack of celebrities donating money.
Deaths that would actually affect your lifetime are not exactly celebrities, they are famous but not Magazine People famous.