every single mega famous celebrity who asks the average person to donate to national tragedies (like the fires in australia) is tone deaf. my $5 donation won’t do shit compared to the million dollars you can drop without making a dent in ur bank account. either make a genuine effort to help or shut the fuck up
They can, like… Do both.
they can but they shouldn’t. their excessive wealth is the solution, not my minimum wage salary that i can barely survive on. the richest 500 people in the world hoard more wealth than everyone on the planet combined; “the world’s 500 richest people added $1.2 trillion to their collective net worths in 2019”
According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States
A price has been set and estimated by the United Nations to solve this crisis – $30 billion a year. It may seem like a large sum of money, but when compared to the U.S. defense budget – $737 billion in 2012 – $30 billion seems more attainable. ($30b per year until 2030 according to older projections)
Jeffrey Sachs, as one of the world’s leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty, stated that the cost to end poverty is $175 billion per year for 20 years. This yearly amount is less than 1 percent of the combined income of the richest countries in the world.
so miss me with filthy rich people putting pressure and passing on their responsibility onto poor people to save the world with money we need for our daily lives.
