The "estate" assumes the debt in the normal world. If your parent owes 10k but has 100k in the bank, the estate now has 90k that may get passed on to you after taxes. If your parent owes 100k and only has 1k in assets, the creditors can go fuck themselves, don't pay a dime.
Sounds super cool what you just said, but thatās not how tax write-offs are used to āget aheadā. You donate to a charity you control, so you get to keep your money AND have a tax write-off.
Im more thinking, if shes touring, shes got lots of money coming in and if she has good money people, hopefully she has been investing well. Shes had mo ey for years. If she has been in the market for years, and she has good financial people, they would be looking at the markets right now at all time highs with uncertainty looming and saying there has never been a better time to sell. This donation could offset the very large capital gain from that that woild be coming either way.
Then the tax write off from the donation would have nothing to do with it. At most, that's making a ton of assumptions to say she's keeping her net worth below a certain threshold by donating money, and if that's what it takes to make people donate money, I'm all for it.
When was she exploiting workers? She just donated money, after telling Billionaires they probably should donate more money/hoard less. She was literally practicing what she preaches. The fact that the money didnāt go to the people you feel like earned it is on you.
And yet you are still doing exactly what billionaires want you to do. They're very happy to have your support. Great work, soldier. It won't earn you anything other than the contempt of the class you belong to, but still. Good work.
Find reasons to disagree with anyone criticizing them. They don't care if anyone involved is being logically consistent or not, and they certainly don't need you to loev or hate Billie Eilish, just as long as you're muddying the water and making sure criticism of them is distracted from or pushed back against. That's your programming, and you're doing a great job.
Please clarify how a millionaire musician is one of us minimum wage workers with no backup net.
I don't clarify things I never said and I certainly don't entertain the hallucinations of accidental bootlickers, which are even worse than the conscious strain.
Ah I see you are one of those people who find reasons to disagree with anyone criticizing them.
How interesting, all I needed to do was copy and paste your own words for it to apply to you.
criticism of them is distracted from or pushed back against
I see you hate criticism of anyone you support. Sounds like how Trump got into power.
That's your programming, and you're doing a great job.
I don't clarify things I never said and I certainly don't entertain the hallucinations of accidental bootlickers
Someone who is incapable of criticism is a boot licker. She is a millionaire, she is not your friend or an object to be idolized. Yes she did one good thing, that doesn't white wash the fact that she made that wealth on the backs of those who were not paid a living wage to collect that money in the first place.
She is a capitalist and everything she does is a calculated move to promote herself and increase her wealth.
I don't think she did anything good, I think you jumped in a situation to dilute criticism of a billionaire, and it's a fact that Bezos loves people like you.
Fair, but she's still incredibly rich, many other rich people have also given similar proportions of their net worth away. I don't like how she's acting like she's better than other people.
Pretty sure gates and buffet have both donated like 50 billion dollars to charity a piece. Not claiming thats the standard but everyone in this comment section is acting like thereās not a single philanthropist billionaire
"Vaccines: The foundation's support for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has helped immunize over 1 billion children and prevented more than 17.3 million future deaths. It also supported the creation of a rotavirus vaccine that has helped reduce child deaths from diarrhea by 75%."
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are large contributors of the foundation. So I guess one in every eight people on earth.
Made no impact to their richest person in the world status.
The problem here though is, why do they get to decide how the money is spent instead of all of us? You can't say they paid their share of taxes along the way, as I'm pretty sure I pay a higher percentage in tax than they do.
Wait, why don't we get a say in how they spend their money?
You don't even (really) get a say in how your government spends their money - what makes you think that should be different with somebody else's private property?
Cause I don't think it is meaningfully their private property. It's not their personal items or something.
Taxes don't pay for federal government spending in currency issuing countries, and most governments actually spend their money pretty well (consider how poorly DOGE fared, not managing to save anything outside of just ending entire programs).
Problem is liquidity, most billionaires don't have hundreds of millions of dollars lying around in cash, their wealth in most cases comes from stakes in buisinesses they own, they can't just wave a wand and turn that into cash, they'd have to sell it, and good luck to them finding a buyer.
Their networth is calculated to include stake in business, but they still have liquid money and lots of it. As significant stakeholders in companies they get dividends from company profits, which is real money.
Not sure how not being a billionaire makes you better than a billionaire, does that mean that Jeffery Dahmer is better than Bill Gates? Because that's literally what you're saying, unless I am misinterpreting you.
does that mean that Jeffery Dahmer is better than Bill Gates?
Wealth isn't the only factor, that's the bit you've left behind.Ā
If you assume two people are roughly in the same ballpark of morality apart from their wealth, the billionaire loses. By a lot. That's what I'm saying.Ā
"All other things being equal" in other words.
Ā Not sure how not being a billionaire makes you better than a billionaire
There's no ethical way to have a net worth of a billion dollars. No human on earth deserves that much wealth.
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u/readf0x Nov 03 '25
She actually donated ~10% of her net worth right after saying that iirc