#philantrophy

[mjesechii]

Philatrophy era, cca 2008

[jerseydeanne]

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry will pen ‘leadership’ book as part of $20M deal

And Markle may be set to write her own sensational memoir — following in her husband’s footsteps.

[mrs-theirin]

you know the problem i have with celebrities and people like jeff bezos? it’s not that they’re rich--whatever, if you worked to get to a certain point, bask in the rewards--but it’s that they Constantly have money coming into their accounts by doing absolutely nothing and they don’t use it to help anyone. if i knew that no matter how much money i spent, all of it would be back in my account in a week, i would use it to help people. if jeff bezos gives 10 billion dollars to charity today, revenue from amazon and all the other shit he owns would put that 10 billion right back in his pocket in no time. THIS is the problem i have. but instead, all of them are so rooted in capitalism that they’ll sit back and enjoy their golden toilets and 10,000 dollar masks instead of helping the people who allowed them to get to this point. eat. the. rich.

[harryshumjrupdates]

The Conscious Kid via Instagram, May 4th 2021

[radicalurbanista]

@angxlthenerd

[kenyatta]

The result has been what the late German billionaire shipping magnate and philanthropist Peter Kramer called “a bad transfer of power”, from democratically elected politicians to billionaires, so that it is no longer “the state that determines what is good for the people, but rather the rich who decide”. The UN general assembly has warned governments and international organisations that, before taking money from rich donors, they should “assess the growing influence of major philanthropic foundations, and especially the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation … and analyse the intended and unintended risks and side-effects of their activities”. Elected politicians, the UN warned in 2015, should be particularly concerned about “the unpredictable and insufficient financing of public goods, the lack of monitoring and accountability mechanisms, and the prevailing practice of applying business logic to the provision of public goods”. Some kinds of philanthropy may have become not just non-democratic, but anti-democratic. Charles Koch and his late brother, David, are undoubtedly the most prominent example of rightwing philanthropy at work. But there are scores of others, most particularly in the US, who embrace causes which many find controversial and even distasteful. Art Pope has used the fortune he has amassed from his discount-store chain to push for a tightening of the law to prevent fraud in elections, even though such fraud is negligible in the US. Pope’s move, which would require voters to show ID at the polls, effectively disenfranchises the 10% of the electorate who lack photo ID because they are too poor to own a car and are unlikely to go to the expense of getting a driving licence simply to vote. Such voters – many of them black – are statistically unlikely to vote for the arch-conservatives that Art Pope smiles upon. But do such philanthropic activities manipulate the democratic process any more than do the campaigns of the billionaire financier George Soros to promote accountable government and social reform around the world? Or hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer’s funding of a movement to encourage more young people to vote on climate change? Or the attacks by the internet billionaire Craig Newmark on fake news? In each case these rich individuals are motivated to intervene by something arising from their own lived experience. By what yardstick can we suggest that some are more legitimate than others?

How philanthropy benefits the super-rich | Society | The Guardian

[antinatalism-explained]

[stupidforsapiosexual]

I was scouting for dogs today and I found a litter of 3 kittens!!! They were looking quite hungry... since i don't have much experience with cats, I gave them baby food to eat. Sorry for the atrocious picture quality, they were a bit scared so I had to zoom to get a click.