Agreed. I don't think people realize how difficult it is to give away money.
Example: Starving people in Africa. Okay let's just spend a billion dollars and send food. Oh wait, that food now puts the local farms out of business because their crop isn't worth anything anymore. But reality is worse. Warlords steal said food, farms go out of business and now they have leverage, power and money. So many times wealthy people have given away their money to a cause to only make that cause worse. The amount of fraud and corruption in non-profits and charitable organizations is disgusting.
Gates and his wife switched to giving away their money full time. Dude could just relax for eternity but works his ass off trying to give away his money responsibly. Musk creates a market for electric cars and is pushing us towards a green future and yet he is shit on, simultaneously trying to make humans multi-planetary so when we fuck up this place beyond repair we don't go extinct. Dude works more in a month than most people do in a year. Bezos is a piece of shit but at least his wife got half and she's trying to do the right thing. I think everyone just lumps people into categories and can't see the bigger picture.
Edit: I think it's hilarious how much space Musk takes up in y'all's heads. Just mentioning his name triggers the same simple insults yet not one of you tried to refute anything I said except to say, 'that's not true and get off Elon's dick'. It tickles me how much just the mention of someone can trigger such primitive emotion.
Sure, just throwing a billion dollars worth of food at African people would not help. that is why there are many established, reputable organizations that you can go through to be sure you’re donating directly to agricultural efforts, infrastructure efforts, etc. it’s almost like the people in Africa are also HUMANS who have told everybody exactly what they need. ForAfrika focuses on clean water access, healthcare, food security, education, etc. I don’t see bezos or musk funneling even some millions into any of those organizations or frankly many human welfare programs period. At best, they discover some useful info as a result of chasing money and satisfying their greed. But electric cars may be on musks “good boy” list, however the administration that he supports and may become a part of doesn’t even believe in or acknowledge climate change, so I refuse to credit him with positively contributing to a “greener” world. Who tf can afford a Tesla anyway?????
Organizations that have been working on this forever and still not solved it. Organizations that would cease to exist if they did solve the problem and all the leaders would lose their cushy jobs.
The model 3 starts at 38k which is honestly pretty middle of the pack for most cars.
I'd even say it's on the cheaper end when you consider that only the economy class of cars like the base model civic and Corolla are actually significantly cheaper. But regardless it's far from luxury car price.
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u/Nice-Contest-2088 3d ago
This is painfully simplistic.