Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be an attack on Mackenzie Scott, but rather the class as a whole that she is part of. That money didn't come from their "hard work," it came from the workers. This...
Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be an attack on Mackenzie Scott, but rather the class as a whole that she is part of.
That money didn't come from their "hard work," it came from the workers. This is taking 60 billion dollars from all the employees that work at amazon, then giving 8 billion to a charity. Just like all philanthropy, it's done to 'legitimize' the wealth they appropriate in the first place. Their endless need for expansion on a planet with finite resources is the main drive of climate change, so giving a little of the gains from that expansion to combatting climate change isn't addressing the cause, but rather the symptom. We can't just get rid of wealth inequality without getting rid of the root cause of that inequality in the first place
Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be an attack on Mackenzie Scott, but rather the class as a whole that she is part of.
That money didn't come from their "hard work," it came from the workers. This is taking 60 billion dollars from all the employees that work at amazon, then giving 8 billion to a charity. Just like all philanthropy, it's done to 'legitimize' the wealth they appropriate in the first place. Their endless need for expansion on a planet with finite resources is the main drive of climate change, so giving a little of the gains from that expansion to combatting climate change isn't addressing the cause, but rather the symptom. We can't just get rid of wealth inequality without getting rid of the root cause of that inequality in the first place