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this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2024
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Well I think of it this way.
If Mr beast didn't exist:
A few thousand people wouldn't have been embarrassed on the internet
Tens of thousands of people wouldn't have been given access to clean water.
Hundreds would have never received medical care.
Amazing charities like ocean clean up and team trees would have never gotten the level of support they did.
Many were lifted out of poverty both on main channel, games channel, and philanthropy. They wouldn't be.
Thousands wouldn't be employed in jobs they like.
So given the fact that we are in the system we are in, I'm glad we have him.
As annoying as it is, to help people, you need money. People who help people without monetizing it, run out of money. It's just what it is. He's playing the game, and unlike 99% of billionaires, the game involves enriching others.
I'm fine with a system where building a home for the needy rewards you with the money to do it again. Better than the alternative.
We shouldn't be depending on rich people to do things the government should be doing. The more they do this, the less the government will do their actual job.
See: Elon Musk talking about a hyper loop as soon as California starts considering a large public rail system, effectively destroying the rail system plan and allowing him to sell more cars for way longer.
Except that was malicious and blocked a solution.
Beast isn't preventing in a solution. He went and gave water to villages that had been searching and begging for a solution for years. He gave cataract surgery to people who couldn't afford it. He gave them exactly what they wanted, not something worse then didn't deliver.
In a better world, either Mr Beast couldn't exist because people couldn't have 100,000 times more wealth thqn others, or there would be no one for him to help.
We don't live in that better world. To me it looks like the world is a better place because of him. He's helped many directly, and inspired others to help. The harm he has done seems to either be hypothetical, or claiming people were harmed who they themselves say are fine.
So it seems like the world is better because he is in it.
This is a hop skip and a jump from "the more you feed the homeless at a soup kitchen, the less they went to go out and get a job"
Edit for clarity: I'm not espousing that opinion, I'm targeting it.
Huh? We should feed the homeless, and we should encourage philanthropy.
Separately, we should improve our governmental systems.
Edit edit
Im specifically targeting the line about government not doing its job.
Corporate fuckery is not philanthropy, and the implication that charity diminishes governmental progress is a source I'd like to read.
Huh? We should feed the homeless, and we should encourage philanthropy.
Separately, we should improve our governmental systems.
I'd like a source of charity bring a net detriment to social progress.
Edit Elon's Hyperloop is not philanthropy charity or anything near it.
Equating what mr beast does to the regularity and systemic fuckery Elon does is inaccurate
Wanting people to suffer is horrible. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I'm literally calling for more and better charity you silly goose
That's... That's not what they said at all LOL.
Do you honestly think if Mr beast blipped out of existence that the government would step in to do all those things?
Hyperloop fucked us, true, but it feels like the campaigns Mr beast goes on aren't really interfering with government decisions.
Agreed. No need to make him a scapegoat. He's just supplying money from corporations into the hands of people who could use it. It would be better if we didn't have to do it this way but I'd rather that then corporations just keep the money.