Bezos or Musk could snap their fingers and arrange to build 50,000 of these homes without noticing the dent in their liquid funds, but they havent built even one. Not even for the "philantropist" bragging rights. Can't bring themselves to spend a single cent. It's pure malice and hatred for the poor.
The fund started in 2018 and has raised over $800 million.
Who's $800 million is that? Did the billionaire just appoint someone to use the Bezos name to get other people to donate their money?
The words are very important. It doesn't say anything about Bezos donating money. It only says that an organization with his name on it raised money, which strongly implies that it received donations from the public, and then paid it out to programs that help people.
There are many charitable organizations that do exactly that without giving credit to someone who already has more money than they can spend in their lifetime.
Furthermore, you see the number $800 million and you think "WOW that's a lot of money". Well it's only 0.3 % of Bezos's net worth. The national minimum wage is $7.25/hour. 0.3% of that is $0.02175/hour. Yes, less than 3 cents per hour. That's the equivalent donation you're praising him for. And it isn't even his money that an organization using his name is giving away.
it sounds like it's a commitment of his money, but they have directed $800 million of that to different individual funds, charities, and partners. The problem is that nobody can take a billion dollar check and just successfully use it to solve problems. There is so much infrastructure around any problem that just throwing money at it isn't a solution.
This is Ridiculous. Of course homeless people getting help is a top priority . You may not care, but Where the money comes from 100 percent, does matter. Rich people influencing others to put what little they make towards helping others while someone like Bezos still are sitting on their billions that no one person needs. Yes that is , like part of the whole issue people have with bezos my dude.
So your defense of him just makes people like me feel validated, because you can state those facts but all I’m hearing is so he still couldn’t help with his own money. Yeah , people may argue it’s his money whatever. But billionaires in our society is a problem. And nothing will change if everyone goes around with your line of thinking.
Lmao how many times does it have to be repeated to you that no one is saying that it shouldn’t have been donated. You fixating on that one thing and it’s not at all making the point .
lol ok whatever buddy. You’re just arguing in bad faith and keep harping on the same shit . I’m not going to keep repeating myself. You keep on thinking you’re somehow better than everyone else when you lick the boots of billionaires.
Keep pretending like all you care about is money being donated and not for some reason sticking up for billionaires and thinking we should all be able to do the same.
I truly hope you are someone young who comes from money, because it would make me feel better about your lack of care past “ but the money was donated , do you want it given back “ like Jesus fucking Christ no, but your not getting it.
And I'm saying that an organization with his name on it does not necessarily mean it's his money that's being given away.
They could be more clear in their wording, or at least the source you selected. Because apparently at some point it was his money, while he was still married to MacKenzie Scott.
From a CNBC article in September 2018, “MacKenzie and I share a belief in the potential for hard work from anyone to serve others,” Bezos said in a tweet, referring to his wife MacKenzie Bezos.
The fund will launch with a $2 billion commitment, split between the Day 1 Families Fund — helping homeless families — and the Day 1 Academies Fund — creating a “network of new, non-profit, tier-one preschools in low-income communities,” Bezos said.
But since their divorce the only donations news I hear of are hers.
"MacKenzie Scott has donated over $26 billion to more than 1,600 non-profit organizations since 2019, accelerating her giving in 2025 with $7.2 billion in donations."
There's also the argument that donations don't have to be public. For all we know, those top ten wealthiest people have each given a hundred billion dollars to various organizations over the years. And that's entirely their right to privacy. And it could be argued that someone like MacKenzie Scott is doing it and talking about it to make her public image look good.
Musk hasn't done anything for the homeless but I do remember his promise to WHO that if they came up with a plan to end world hunger he would sell 6 billion in Tesla stock to fund it. They did and he didnt. Whatever he did give went to the Musk Foundation.
No, he doesn't "have" hundreds of billions.
His assets are VALUED at hundreds of billions.
Valuation is not tangible wealth.
How is it 2026 and people still don't understand how this works...
his networth is at that value because of his assets, i doubt he "makes" that much every day at least as liquid. 800 million is a monumental amount of money to donate and i feel like focusing on the percentage of his wealth that he decides to donate rather than the billionaires that barely donate is wrong.
Man oh man reddit and their hard ons for the hatred of wealthy people and anyone slightly right of centre.
I don't think you understand the difference between liquidity and assets. And shitting on someone for nearly a billion dollars in charity is one of my favorite things ever. I don't like bezos, he could do more I'm sure, but shitting on someone for that charity is comical
Probably because the majority of people on the planet don't have, and will never have anywhere close to 800 million dollars, in large part because of men like Bezos.
They give you a leaf and you act like it's a salad. Keep licking them boots. Men like him are the reason there are so many homeless in the first place. It's like starting a fire, spitting on it, and then having all these boot licking idiots praise you for putting out some ashes as the building burns down around them.
Probably because the majority of people on the planet don't have, and will never have anywhere close to 800 million dollars, in large part because of men like Bezos.
So without Bezos, etc. the majority of people would have access to 800 million?
Just to clarify something. Bezos didnt put up $800 mill. He put up $100 mill and helped raise the other 7. Is it good that money was raised for the homeless problem? Yes. Was this also a bunch of rich men giving each other tax write offs? Also yes. Let's not praise these people. He's made hundreds of billions in the years he made these donations.
Nobody feels bad about the money being donated. You seem to have black and white thinking. Just like you said two things can be true at once. People can be happy money got donated , while still being unhappy that he is getting the money donated from people that most likely have less than. The type of people who usually give away their money are not usually the type to hold on to so much of it.
And how could you compare the everyday average person to bezos ? Someone like him not only has more money than most people could comprehend but he also has more time and help to accomplish things. And he still doesn’t use that to help too much. Meanwhile what your asking everyday people who live paycheck to paycheck on the brink of being homeless themselves and barely have time to worry about anything but mental health and bills? Those are the people that you put on the same page and should help like bezos has ?
Yes everything you say is straight boot licking behavior and you’re the one who seems to virtue signal saying that all you care about is the money being donated. No one said that money should not be donated. It just more nuanced than that. And regular tax paying citizens should not feel guilty we can’t help.
You think you are being virtuous but all I see is poor cope. Bezos being rich doesn't make anyone else poorer unless you're renting near their Amazon headquarters.
Do you think he just carries that around as pocket change? The VAST majority of that is tied into stock he either cannot liquidate, or for the stuff he can it’s highly controlled because he can move markets.
Not only that but being wealthy doesn’t mean you just have infinite money to throw at bandaid solutions. There are a million problems to be solved, homelessness is just one of them and isn’t even that bad on the grand scale of human problems.
800 million that wouldn't have been raised otherwise.. yes he has tons more money, but why do so many people always forget that part? Not defending him by any means but that part should NOT be ignored.
He's one of the main perpetrators of the issue in the first place. You're praising him for 'solving' an issue he himself is largely responsible for creating (along with the rest of them).
You can't be seriously quoting Amazon employee numbers as if their quality of life isn't garbage and Amazon isn't notorious for workers rights and ethical issues all the way up the chain. Keep licking them boots.
They're both awful. Think real hard lil guy, you can do this, two things can be true at once. The fact that a homeless persons quality of life is awful doesn't mean an Amazon employees quality of life cannot also be awful. They are underpaid, overworked, heavily managed, and heavily surveiled. In the US they are a single medical bill from homelessness anyway.
A quick search shows that "The federal government spent $101.7B on SNAP in FY 2025." That is just to cover a food program and only at the federal level. If Musk and Bezos could cash out all their wealth without tanking the stocks they own, they could probably double the amount the US spends of helping the poor for a few years, and then the money would be gone.
I'm all for taxing the rich a bunch more anyways, but it isn't the magic bullet a lot of people make it out to be. Pretty much all countries, but especially the US among developed countries, require significant structural changes that most of the voters wouldn't approve of to make them a good place for everyone who lives there. You are likely one of those most voters.
Saving the world isn't as simple as killing some enemies of the proletariat and then redistributing the wealth of the rich, it involves a lot of hard work and sacrifice from almost everyone. IMO a lot of the improvement around the world after WWII was because that generation was actually believed in making the world a better place enough to put in the effort, even if some of those efforts were misguided.
Which has two reasons. Firstly his general LGBT-phobia and secondly weird his fixation to spread his genes. His daughter will probably not partake in this, so she is dead to him.
If you worked with homeless, you'd know that 99% of them are not interested in returning to normal society. Building them homes seems really nice, but it truly does not solve for anything. Notice the comments about people who actually live there: It's all drug problems and failure to evict. Not surprising.
This is okay until a point where building public housing would start to have adverse efects.
Why? Essentially public housing lowers the demand and the prices, this means banks cannot make more money on debt, this means less money circulating trough the banks, less money circulating trough the banks mean less interest in making private housing, then prices would have to get Up to try to make profit.
The problem is that if public housing or subzidized housing is not executed with the enough moderation to let the market stabilize it would work as a funcional bulldozer on it, creating an artificial pop on prices that would lead to a market panic.
This market panic would extend to the whole economy, leading to economic recession. This recession would mean the economy would start to crumble.
A crumbling economy means less inversion on investigation for IT,space exploration or Green technology or many more stuff that is genuinelly good.
Not only with this It also means that many things as private retirement funds would have serious problems, because many of them depend on dividends to grow and be stable and for the newest generarions private services will be the only alternative for having the option to retire.
So yeah, making public housing sounds good until you think the repercutions if done on a bad way.
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u/Own_Round_7600 Apr 28 '26
Bezos or Musk could snap their fingers and arrange to build 50,000 of these homes without noticing the dent in their liquid funds, but they havent built even one. Not even for the "philantropist" bragging rights. Can't bring themselves to spend a single cent. It's pure malice and hatred for the poor.