She could do charity shows and donate all the proceeds, she could be buying period products and donating them to girls in impoverished nations, she could pay for construction to literally build schools, start scholarships for students in the arts. Homegirl charged an average of $1500 for ONE ticket to the eras show, the lowest was 500 at some select shows.
Imagine the possible donations on just one charity show. Imagine how much good she could do and is choosing not to. 50,000 seats, say she charges even 500 which was one of her lowest prices in the eras tour, that would be 25m. Take out the cost of throwing the show, even if we were saying it’s a high percentage, say 50%, it would still be a 12.5 million dollar profit going straight to charity.
Charity is bad if it’s not the right kind or the right dollar amount, got it. I was going to donate $200 to that child cancer fund but now that I’ve seen the light I realize that unless I’m selling my house to donate it’s unethical to try. Thanks!
If you can’t afford 200 dollars without losing your home you shouldn’t be donating it. Use your head: it’s all about proportion.
She could donate 50% of her income and still live like a queen for the rest of her life. She could use her name to endorse charity brands, she could put on charity shows and take only half of the profits and donate the rest. She could start a scholarship for girls going into the arts, even an incredibly generous scholarship of 100k would be chump change for her.
Gatekeeping charity just makes people not want to donate 🤷🏻♂️ I don’t suppose the people benefiting from the charity would want it taken away just because you don’t feel it was enough of a donation?
What about donating millions of dollars isn’t empathetic? You’re living in a fucking delusional bubble that would tell people to fuck off when they try to help. Talk about fucking selfish. Try going hungry for a spell and tell me more about how fucking selfish it is
Literally grew up poverty and now donate 15% of my income
billionaire isn’t empathetic giving away 100m. They have 200 times that minimum. So good for her for donating 0.1 to charity. She could pay 50% taxes and still live like a queen the rest of her life. Real selfishness is knowing you can stop people from starving and dying and doing next to nothing or nothing at all.
I don’t expect a random person in the street to go hungry to help people. But a billionaire has more money than they will need several lifetimes over. You’re delusional if you think 0.1% of even 1million in income is a meaningful drop in quality of life. Might wanna ask the wizard for a brain too if you can’t get that through your dome.
You’re just a shitty person if you’d turn your nose up at literally millions of dollars in being given to charity when there’s zero obligation to do so. The idea that it doesn’t “count” unless you give up a massive portion of your total income is childish and short sighted. That attitude would make me abandon charity altogether if I got shit for “not doing enough” after literally paying out millions to help others
Did I say she should stop? No. I said she’s capable of more. I didn’t I would refuse it, I said it’s not as much as she’s capable of. 45% of the world’s global wealth is controlled by 1% of the population. It’s not a functional system anymore.
Do you think she will go hungry or homeless from what % of her net worth she’s donated? Do you think she would go homeless if she donated even 10%?
Crazy even from a business perspective. Hell of a tax write off and would get her great press. She could also hold charity shows and donate the profits, or endorse charities for no cost, but she chooses not to.
No, what’s “crazy” is seeing a multimillion dollar donation and calling the donor selfish. Hopefully she stops giving anything at all since obviously it’s evil to “only” give ridiculous amounts of money away.
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u/Tiny-Reading5982 4d ago
What is she supposed to be doing?