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What would the world look like if billionaires actually helped the people? (lemmy.world)

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[–] BCsven 3 points 22 hours ago

I read a good post about this before, the summary was: a philanthropist billionaire helps causes specific to their discretion. While their rise to wealth has taken the toll from many victims, some dead directly because of it, their donations back may not even help the location they robbed it from.

You can picture United Health suddenly helping world hunger, it doesn't bring back all the people who died miserably from denied claims, or those who are still alive but became permanently disabled by lack of care.