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MacKenzie Scott has done it again.
Having already donated $1.7 billion to charity by this past July and announcing that shes no longer using the last name of her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos she declared that she has donated another $4.2?billion to 384 organizations in the last four months.
While all the tech bros fight over colonizing space and California tax codes, banding together for the only thing they really care about fending off anti-trust legislators Scott makes them all look like stingy, greedy incels without a shred of compassion for those ruined by COVID-19.
This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling, Scott wrote in a Medium post on Dec. 15. Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires.
Billionaires who, with the exception of Bill Gates and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, have been relatively mum on this pandemic. Remember Elon Musk loudly inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue crisis, acting like a real-life Tony Stark? Why so quiet now?
https://nypost.com/2020/12/19/mackenzie-scotts-donations-have-shamed-the-boys-of-tech/
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(89,247 posts)DBoon
(22,362 posts)He threatened to move his plant from California to Nevada if Alameda County did not allow him to fully open IMMEDIATELY, damn the public health consequences.
Musk has been very vocal that his business profit is more important than the lives of his workers.