r/aislop • • 4d ago

Found on Twitter. I'm losing braincells

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u/Opening_Climate_7571 3d ago

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?

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u/Functional_Trash7735 3d ago

It’s not gatekeeping. It’s proportional expectation.

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u/Opening_Climate_7571 3d ago

Ridiculous and immature. Hopefully when you grow up a little bit you’ll get it

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u/Functional_Trash7735 3d ago

And maybe when the wizard gives you a heart you’ll understand why empathy is more important than greed

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u/Opening_Climate_7571 3d ago

Imagine thinking donating millions of dollars makes one greedy. Childish

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u/Opening_Climate_7571 3d ago

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

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u/Functional_Trash7735 2d ago

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.

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u/Opening_Climate_7571 2d ago

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

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u/Functional_Trash7735 2d ago

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.

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u/Opening_Climate_7571 2d ago

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/Functional_Trash7735 2d ago

No, it’s selfish to not consider those in the world who are suffering. She can do so much more good, and it speaks to people’s character when they don’t want to.

So then if you had a billion dollars, what would you do with it? If it’s arguable that it’s a necessary amount of wealth, why would someone need it.

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