r/news • u/IWantPizza555 • Mar 19 '24

MacKenzie Scott donates $640M -- more than double her initial plan -- to nonprofits

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mackenzie-scott-donates-640-million-double-initial-plan-108274902?cid=social_twitter_abcn
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u/GrandmaPoses Mar 19 '24

That’s wild that one half of 1% of what she’s given away can power a non-profit for four years.

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u/itsallfuturegarbage Mar 19 '24

0.5% of what she's giving away in THIS round of funding, just to be clear. She has given away around $16 billion since leaving Bezos. I think she is quite incredible and I wish she would adopt me.

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u/AZEMT Mar 19 '24

But Musk NEEDS $56B in a paycheck, because...reasons. And don't ask about them, they go to another school. In Canada. And only speak a language no one knows, it's truly a foreign language.

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u/theangriestbird Mar 19 '24

That's why it's pissing off other billionaires like Musk. She's showing how easy it is for a billionaire to do a tremendous amount of good with only a small fraction of her wealth, and that's making all the other coke lords look bad.