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Batting for Billionaires (lemmy.ml)
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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Billionaire “philanthropy.”

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Billionaire philanthropy is like doing 100 damage to humanity, then returning 5 health. Then the 5 health gets amplified by information channels and it gets to feel much bigger in the collective consciousness. It gets a further boost when there's other prominent billionaires that don't give any hp back making it stand out as the good guy. So you end up in a bizarre position where objectively the philanthropist is the good guy compared to the rest, but the vast majority of us have no hp left.