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"Billionaire gives pocket change in a PR stunt". Is the proper title.
I heard Taylor almost has $2 billion or so.
That's the equivalent of someone with $100,000 donating five bucks.
She has 2 billion in cold hard cash?
No no no, billionaires don’t store their wealth in cash, that’s what poor people do.
Rich people can afford stocks which allow them to make money on stored money rather than have it decrease in value from inflation like cash does
"Crowd-funded health care is the best American health-care strategy, according to a Fox News/Heritage Foundation funded study."
While they applaud cutting all NIH research.
Sending that much money to a two year old doesn't make sense. They literally have no concept of money or social responsibility. Why send money when the kid clearly needs a Dr.
/s
Charity from billionaires always looks so fake. Just send it anonymously. Otherwise its just a publicity stunt.
If her entire fortune was $100000 she would have given $6.25. A handful of pocket change and a fiver. Yet I don't get articles by the independent written about me when I give an unhoused veteran a $20
I'm glad that someone in her position did less than the absolute bare minimum to help that child's family. What a moving gesture.
I agree with you except if I was a super fan of the rich person sending money.
If Sigourney Weaver or Gillian Anderson want to pay for my CPAP machine, I’d like to know if they’ll also autograph it.
Sigourney and Gillian aren't billionaire capitalists, they're wealthy because they're talented actresses. Their talent makes the owners of production companies lots of money, and they're paid a fraction of it. But they still have to find someone to buy their labor. They had to audition to get jobs before they were big stars.
TS's dad bought a record label and signed her to it.
Class analysis can be tricky, especially the entertainment industry, but it isnt always about being rich or not. The surest way to tell is "what is the relationship to production?" Tay is a billionaire because she helped ticketmaster and Live Nation create a monopoly, she's a parasite. Without Gillian and Sigourney, the movies and shows they worked in wouldn't be as good.
For sure. You’re totally right. I just mean little girls freaking love TS (whether she earned it or not). If she paid for their treatment I know they’d wanna know.
(I realize this is a 2 yr old, I’m just speaking generally)
There are no billionaires without exploitation.
1000%
But exploitation is about human freedom. Getting rid of billionaires doesn't end exploitation. It's just a beginning.
The struggle for human freedom will never end
I’d like to know if they’ll also autograph it, try it on, sleep over for the night.
You get me. (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Yeah the article said she did it quietly. If that were true we wouldn't know about it. You're right: publicity stunt
"A child who's medical care would be completely free in every other developed nation, and a few underdeveloped ones too receives pocket change from a billionaire so that she doesn't die under the crushing weight of the American medical system" just does not have the same ring to it for article headlines you know? We gotta get the current youth hyperfixation's name in the headline for clicks, because we literally only exist to serve ads.
If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare
If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare
And if we had representatives that would vote to use that money for healthcare instead of using it on the military or a new ball room and instead line their pockets with lobbyist ~~bribes~~ donations.
Don't yall already spend more per capita for health care than the developed nations? I'm not saying don't tax the fuck outta billionaires, but the USA should already have a single payer Healthcare system
Yup. Muricans pay 14k$ per capita while the rest of the developed world pays 5-8k$ per capita.
We're both self defeating and stupid. Also, we don't feel that our nation should work to our benefit. It's really a long term 1D chess strat to die early because our nation is a hellhole of our own devising.
Oh, but we also are basically poor while we do it. We're #1! {According to us}
Had a friend/coworker, whose family is more than well off, say, "I don't want my money paying for someone else's healthcare!"
"How do you think insurance works?"
She stared at me, jaw agape.
"How much do you and Shawn pay for your family's health insurance?"
Staring.
She had no clue because the cost was below her income horizon. The very next day she was outside my office bitching to her friend about her migraine shots costing $1,000 a pop and they couldn't really afford that. Oh god, I couldn't resist.
In passing: "How's that health care system working for ya?"
More stares.
I know, and everyone clapped. But this women was outrageously attractive, pretty smart, very nice and sociable, no one ever contradicted her. Had great fun poking her now and again. The look of shock on her face was hilarious.
"Can you do $outrageously_stupid_insecure IT thing for me?"
"No way I'm doing that."
Stares.
"Go ask my boss (her brother-in-law) if that's a good idea. If he agrees, I'll do it."
Stares.
Still giggling about her 7-years later. Sometimes life hands you material. :)
Yes we should but some people would make less money that way, can't have that
She's a billionaire, so for comparison, this is akin to someone who's net worth is 100k, donating 10 Eur. Hardly something worth writing puff articles about.
She's worth 1.6 billion so its actually less
singer quietly donated the sum to the two-year-old girl...
Yeah quietly enough so articles are written about it
If she really cared, she would have donated dark and not had a puff piece written about it.
She could do so much good but instead she does this for the glam and fame. I don't care what anyone says, all billionaires are bad. There's no good billionaire.
Still don't care that a billionaire is doing "charitable works". It's wrong that anyone has to depend on the graces of the wealthy to notice a go fund me to afford healthcare.
Donating that same money to cancer research will save dozens if not hundreds of less photogenic lives, young and old.