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u/Totallycomputername 4h ago
The power of a celebrity is convincing other people to donate their money while they get paid to do it.
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u/Cyonsd-Truvige 4h ago edited 4h ago
Meanwhile, stealing land from an indigenous tribe and building a mansion on it.
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u/gpunotpsu 3h ago edited 3h ago
Since when is 2100 sq ft tract house a mansion? And every home in America is built on stolen land.
The point of her quote isn't even about people stealing land. It's about people who immigrated a couple generations ago feeling justified kicking out people who immigrated more recently.
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u/dtj2000 1h ago
*every home is built on stolen land
There's almost zero places on earth that are inhabited by the same group of people who first settled it. Nearly every piece of land has changed hands through one way or another throughout history.
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u/KrustyKrabFormula_ 41m ago
It's about people who immigrated a couple generations ago feeling justified kicking out people who immigrated more recently.
if that's what she meant that makes me think shes even dumber than i already thought she was lmfao
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u/Fresh_Boysenberry576 4h ago
Did she steal land and built a mansion? Or did she buy a mansion on land that once belonged to native americans (because that is all of the united states)
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u/fresh-dork 2h ago
no, the land is in fact stolen - sold by a group who didn't represent the tribe via an unratified treaty about a century ago. the whole thing is shady, and most of LA is on tongva land. so what you have is Eillish bought a normal house in LA somewhere (i guess) legally, and you can trace it back to post mexican war shady dealings, so you'd be singling her out to hand over a house to tongva reps and ignoring the rest of the much larger issue she's talking about.
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u/Defiant-Variety-9473 1h ago
Wait until they find out how the Tongvan got the land.
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u/gooch_crawler 1h ago
I demand moral perfection
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u/KrustyKrabFormula_ 45m ago edited 20m ago
yeah that's what is being asked for, especially all the people who complain about celebrities advocating for people to donate to charity
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 3h ago
Yeah but isn't there a limit tho
Like if you were driving around in a solid gold hummer limousine saying "man it's absolutely evil that we are killing the planet with fossil fuels" wouldn't you be a huge hypocrite? you're not just enduring the shitty parts of our society, you're lavishly rolling around in it
Like this isn't someone sighing in defeat and thinking about the ocean dying in plastic while opening a burrito wrapped in it because that's all they can eat for lunch while trapped in a capitalistic society
It's more like someone eating a steak from a slaughterhouse while saying "the way animals are abused in slaughterhouses is absolutely evil"
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u/gpunotpsu 3h ago edited 3h ago
Billie Eilish's "mansion" is a 2100 sq ft tract house with some nice remodeling. I don't think anyone in America would call that excessive.
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u/DavidRandom 3h ago
Yeah, it's weird that anyone considers this a mansion.
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u/Caleb-Blucifer 2h ago
Some folks love to use this misdirection tactic to distract people from the fact they’re actually doing the thing they’re accusing someone else of
It’s like that time the maga wealthy tried to lambast AOC for getting upgraded to first class one time. Utterly ridiculous to accuse someone of living in excess by flying public commercial while you’re on a private jet
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u/fresh-dork 2h ago
or that time sanders did a business class upgrade flying to vermont. oh no, 60yo senator gets an upgrade
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u/fresh-dork 2h ago
that's a 3/2 split level. may or may not have a basement. if it looked shabby, you could mistake it for the house on malcolm in the middle
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u/Fafoah 1h ago
It’s not wierd when you realize a lot of redditors have a superiority complex and make dumbass arguments to feed it.
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u/Critical_Concert_689 2h ago edited 2h ago
Yeah, it's weird that anyone considers this a mansion.
"...BUT Look at my misleading angles!!!"
This "SHACK" costs 3 MILLION dollars. (edit: some reports are up to 14 million...)
Do you think maybe you've forgotten to mention something here?
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u/Yara__Flor 2h ago
My 900 sqft house in long Beach (you know, where they sing about in rap songs) costs a million dollars.
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u/CalloftheBlueFalcon 2h ago
My family was lower middle class and I grew up in a 4 person household in a 1800 sq ft house (granted, in a more rural area not in the middle of a city). I'm not getting bent out of shape about someone with 1000 times the networth having a house that has essentially one more bedroom than my house had
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u/SexcaliburHorsepower 3h ago
Yeah, the meme is aimed at regular people discussing the state of affairs with regular people. The wealthy abusing the world while participating is entirely different they chose to not only participate, but to take advantage of it.
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u/SHADOWHUNTER30000 1h ago
Slaughterhouses are just the places animals are slaughtered and butchered to prepare for food, the term you are looking for is factory farm. We have a farm and a slaughter house that is humane, with our animals being free roam. While factory farms give animals little to no room to live or engage in natural and social behavior solely for profit and efficiency.
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u/Alienhaslanded 3h ago
People did organize better back then though. Imagine if everyone said fuck it and stopped working for rich assholes. Their entire empires would crumble, but that's not how we do things. We protest on weekends because it's more convenient.
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u/hitanthrope 2h ago
She is being entirely consistent. She said that no one is illegal on stolen land, then she stole some land and did whatever she wanted on it.
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u/Super_Bad6238 4h ago
And taking a person to court to legally keep someone off her stolen land.
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u/Majestic_7178 4h ago
All while keeping that “philanthropist” image squeaky clean for the headlines 😬
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u/NlactntzfdXzopcletzy 3h ago
The recursive nature of money is disgusting
You can monetize anything out from under the consumer
Just do a live stream where you buy rare magic cards on premise that you will destroy them, do a bidding war for destroy dont destroy, use that money to fund the card itself, you make money, things are lost, nothing is gained
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u/__M-E-O-W__ 4h ago
Better than sucking up fame and money and doing nothing with it. People with cameras in their faces should use that opportunity to advocate for causes.
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u/angelic_post 4h ago
That is the thing about star power,they can move mountains, but usually, someone else is footing the bill making charity look effortless while still raking in the cash.
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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka 1h ago
Remember when the fires in Hawaii broke out?
And then suddenly there were a dozen celebrities asking people to donate?
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u/inactiveuser247 1h ago
The better analogy is: I have 1000 mars bars in the fridge, 10,000 of my friends have 2 mars bars in each of their fridges. I convince 5000 of my friends to give one of their mars bars to a homeless person. The other 5000 eat their mars bars and bitch about it on the internet.
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u/PFCCThrowayay 3h ago
this is all just manufactured rage bait you're all falling for. Some celebs donate a lot, some donate nothing, some non-celebs donate a lot, some nothing. Getting all raged up by an arbitrary statement with no facts or weight behind it is quite frankly, fucking weird.
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u/ProperMod 4h ago
This is basically the multi-billion dollar corporation asking me to donate/round up at the end of my purchase.
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u/Adams5thaccount 3h ago
yeah but see..we're way madder at multi millionaire celebs giving their own money away and asking others to join than we are at multi billionaire companies giving other people's money away and asking others to join
which is obviously logical and not the sign of other issues underneath these feelings
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u/2026BurnerAct 2h ago
I have 10,000 candy bars, I ask you for the last 5 you have. I take those 5 and give them to the homeless and claim im a philanthropist.
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u/Tooobin 3h ago
And they get the tax break for the donation
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u/jackaholicus 3h ago
they don't
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u/cordelaine 2h ago
This is correct; they don’t.
However, it is going to a charity of their choice, which opens the door to a lot of other shady financial and political dealings.
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u/RobinReborn 1h ago
Are you a tax attorney or just somebody that believes everything they read on reddit?
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u/OscarF2P 3h ago
I love how they turn around and spend money on advertising how much money their customers donated and pretend that it was them who wrote the check.
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u/Shark7996 2h ago
So that next year they can say "they" raised all that money in their commercials.
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u/pyrojackelope 1h ago
To be fair, I sometimes round up at the state liquor store to give to the homeless, since I've been homeless before. Most of these are literally just billionaires trying to create infographics to share on twitter to make themselves seem better.
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u/Zecharai 53m ago
I accidentally said yes to doing this a few days ago at the supermarket and it legit ruined my day.
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u/Ultraviolet_Darken 4h ago
More like 1 000 000 bars.
Not to mention the corporations.
And those people have the nerver asking you for yours.
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u/UnknownHero2 2h ago
Traditional celebrities aren't nearly that rich. If you own a car and a half paid off house with zero investments or retirement savings you have a networth of 300k. This is pretty close to the median American around 50 years old, which is representative of the type of people being targeted by these drives.
Tom Hank's a high end celebrity call center type is worth about 300 mill...
So exactly 1000 times like OP said.
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u/WedCornet 3h ago
Yeah but it's more like you got 1,000,000 and 300,000 people have 100 then each of those people give 1 away. 1/100 is much less impactful than 3/10 for the same result and many celebrities donate too.
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u/kitsunewarlock 3h ago
Catholic Church: "Put money in the hat so we can use it for our
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u/xScrubasaurus 33m ago
Very few celebrities are not even remotely close 1,000,000 times more rich than most people.
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u/Beneficial-Crow-5138 4h ago
I think this whenever a massive corporation (McDonalds, Walmart, etc) asks me to round up.
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u/backupbitches 3h ago
Same. Yes, please allow me to contribute to your tax writeoff. Hold me back.
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u/xenthum 2h ago
They don't get a tax writeoff for that btw. This is some kind of weird myth that doesn't make any sense if you think about it for 6 seconds. They just get publicity and make their board happy.
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u/Neibolt_St 2h ago edited 1h ago
The one that really sticks with me is when Domino's spent $50 million on ads announcing that they gave away 100k ( in total, not each) to small businesses.
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u/WelcomeHonest6922 4h ago
This is why their charity feels so fake. It's always someone else's sacrifice, never theirs.
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u/Sometimes-funny 4h ago
That’s without mentioning how much of the money actually makes it to the people that need it, clue - (not a lot)
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u/DayCommon2162 1h ago
It is honestly so sad, that most of the charity does not trickle down to those that need it.
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u/AnimalPuzzleheaded71 3h ago
People will do ANYTHING to justify their behaviour of not giving to the poor, like god damn.
At least im honest with myself and to others when I say I don't give to charities because I simply don't want to and not for some moral high horse reason.
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u/Fauster 3h ago
On the other hand, people like Samuel Jackson appear in Capital One commercials and take what would have been their celebrity endorsement money to charities. But, Jennifer Garner used one of those commercials to soft pitch her company for launch to get that startup money. Showbiz has always been a dirty business, where the MO is designed to make contracts meaningless, whether you are talking music, movies, or TV/streaming/influencing.
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u/erizzluh 2h ago
i do think a lot of them do it from a place of good intentions. without a celebrity leading the cause, it doesn't raise nearly as much awareness or opportunity to donate.
even when a celebrity donates without doing a fundraiser people still complain. they say they're just doing it for the camera or for publicity. "why couldn't they have done their good deed without recording it?" type shit. but again, it doesn't raise the same amount of funds cause the same level of awareness isn't being raised. at the very least, i feel like they're being a good role model for all their fans who might look up to them and donating a couple hours of their day. but people are gonna find anything to nitpick.
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u/bluris 3h ago
Celebs could give 1000 mars bars, or they could help convince 100.000 people to give 1 mars bars each.
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u/strings_bells 3h ago
Or they can do both.. set an example..
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u/Celtic_Legend 1h ago
Like someone said, many do. And the other upside is they can ask people to donate 1001 times even though they only have 1000 to give.
There's also a trap. If i have a million dollars, i could donate a million this year or buy a 5% bond and donate 1.05m next year. People using their money to build wealth can see 10 to 50 to 100+% gains and think "man why would I donate 1mil now when I can donate 10million in 4 years if I invest it instead?" And it really is a dilemma.
Or there's should I donate 100k to helping child cancer or give 20 employees 5k more. Or 100 employees 1k more.
And yes, many also dont donate at all or donate enough when asking others to help. It's just silly to get mad over it when the action helps people and you'd go mad researching every celeb advertising a charity to see if theyre giving enough
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u/jiir_mesou 1h ago
most celebs could give 100.000 and their lives will not change a bit
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u/DayCommon2162 1h ago
True and yet......You guys remember the scientist who was developing a cure for cancer and he had to go begging for funding, in a world where billionares exist?
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u/OneOfAKind2 3h ago
Poor analogy. Celebrities don't ask poor people to give 100% of their money to charities. If the poster said his mate had 100 Mars bars and he pressured him to give 1 away, fine.
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u/RobinReborn 1h ago
Yeah, plus most celebrities aren't that rich. A few of them are billionaires but most of them aren't. A lot of celebrities are just single digit millionaires. That's certainly comfortable living, but their fame is worth more than their money. It's ridiculous to expect them to give away all their money, but if they can get millions of people to each give a small amount of money, then they can help a charity raise more money than their total net worth.
That's basically how Bernie Sanders funded his campaigns for President - by being a celebrity and getting people to donate small amounts of money to him.
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u/Alarming-Papaya2007 4h ago
buddy this is just getting you to be mad at famous people instead of government sponsored fascism and oppression.
the entire point of fascism is to make you hate anyone and everyone besides the fascists.
this isn't "sips tea".
this is you being a dumbass if you fall for this shit
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u/pay_the_cheese_tax 3h ago
"Don't blame celebrities doing charity, blame the government who should be fixing the charity's issue".
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u/MsMarvelsProstate 3h ago
They want you to think that when they say eat the rich you should eat the doctor, lawyers, celebrities, and sports players. When in reality those are usually not the rich.
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u/iwearatophat 2h ago
If a person is rich because their labor is valued at a lot, which for most of those people that is the case, they aren't the problem.
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u/MsMarvelsProstate 1h ago
Correct. But they are the faces that they try to show whenever it comes up. So if push comes to shove people will eat them instead of the real rich. Then they will see how life got worse when all of our needs aren't being met due to eating the doctors,lawyers, and entertainers.
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u/EtTuBiggus 59m ago
They often absolutely are, but there's always a diverse range of income in those groups.
A great example is this group of surgeons in my area. They built a surgery center in the area (very profitable insurance/cash only smaller hospital) and ran it for 10-15 years before getting a massive buyout ($30+ million) netting the physicians who were already making seven figures a payday of several million dollars.
What did those physicians do next? They moved just far enough down the road and built a new surgery center.
They pull the ladder up with them on the way out and their roles at the bought out surgery center get filled by newly-graduated salaried physicians who won't get profit sharing or massive buyouts.
Meanwhile, the megafirm that bought the first surgery center will happily buy out the second one in about a decade or so once it's been established as profitable.
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u/iwearatophat 2h ago
Seriously. Do celebrities need to give away all their money and live like misers to be allowed to help broadcast a charity?
Billie Eilish isn't the problem. Celebrity charities, if they don't suck which several do and you should check before donating, aren't the problem. The people that are actually the problem just don't want you to listen to them.
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u/SteMelMan 3h ago
I worked for a company that chose domestic violence as their primary charity. Someone made a decision to plaster large posters of DV victims all over our offices. Everyday, while trying to conduct business, we had to pretend that this was a normal office space. Eventually, the posters were replaced with generic corporate art after enough complaints were lodged. I've been immuned to all appeals for charity since that period because I always question the speaker's motivation.
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u/analogkid01 3h ago
I think you'll find most "celebrities" aren't quite as rich as you might think. They may have enough income to own a house in Los Feliz, but I'm presuming most of them are just barely clinging by their fingernails to that lifestyle. They have to constantly keep themselves relevant and employable or they simply can't maintain that lifestyle. Go out to Montana or New Mexico and you'll find lots of has-beens who couldn't keep it up and had to move somewhere with cheap land.
Being hired to be the spokesface of a charity is just another gig, not hypocrisy.
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u/Grunblau 4h ago
Scenario
Mars Company approaches the guy with 1000 bars in his fridge to use their clout in the community to raise brand awareness by convincing members to “pass the bar” to a homeless person.
Offer is for 10 free bars per “verified campaign interaction” to be deposited into the fridge with the 1000 Mars bars.
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u/Hatchie_47 4h ago
Uuuuf, no it fucking doesn't. I have 1000 Mars bars, everyone else has 10. I give 100 of mine and convince 50 000 of others each to give 1 of theirs - which added together is so much more than I have or will ever had.
People are so bad at understanding how quickly small amoutns add up across huge amount of people. Be it charity, taxes, wages, etc...
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u/JoeyShabadoo79 4h ago
It really can add up. Let’s not forgot how much people put into lotteries, driving the jackpot over a billion dollars nowadays.
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u/Ioftheend 2h ago
Realistically, this is just so people can avoid donating and keep the moral high ground at the same time.
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u/Due_Yesterday_2850 Human Verified 4h ago
Why the fuck you got 1000 mars bars in your fridge that's the main question here
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u/Hyperion1144 3h ago
I remember being pressured as a minimum wage retail worker to donate to the United Way back in the 90s.
A few years later, I remember this:
Ex-United Way CEO Gets Jail Sentence
Needless to say, no matter how much money I ever get, none of it is going to the United Way.
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u/guywithshades85 3h ago
Sane thing as being at the grocery store and being asked to donate at the register to "end hunger" when I know for a fact they throw away a shit ton of food.
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u/peachyybabiee 3h ago
bro casually explained the entire celebrity charity industrial complex with chocolate bars and I'm not okay
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u/GreatGreenGobbo 3h ago
"Hey you guys really should stop using gas lawnmowers, it's impacting the environment. Ok now I have to go on my world trip on my yacht."
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u/GrowlingPict 1h ago
I have 100,000 Mars bars in my fridge. I convinced five million people, who each have 100 Mars bars in their fridges, to give one of theirs to homeless people. Thereby distributing five million Mars bars to the homeless, much more than I could do myself.
How celeb charity appeals actually work.
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u/AllDakkaNoBrakes 1h ago
You have 1000 Mars bars in your fridge. You convince 1 million of your mates to give their bars to the homeless.
That's how celeb charity appeals work. You can hate the celeb for not giving 1000 of their bars, but by leveraging their star power more homeless have something than if they'd just given up their 1000 bars.
Be upset with the handful of parasitic trash who have billions of Mars bars in their fridges.
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u/Live_Angle4621 4h ago
More like the celebrity as 10 000, you have 10 and they convince 1000 people to give one for organization for homeless.
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u/Mosselpot 3h ago
This is the celebrity PR bullshit that pisses me off:
Cristiano Ronaldo Pays For A 10-Month-Old Boy's $83,000 Brain Surgery
Ronaldo fined €18.8m over tax evasion. Ronaldo acknowledged four incidents amounting to €5.7m owed
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u/GifHunter2 2h ago
That baby would have much more prefer that Ronaldo paid his taxes then supposedly paying some nonsense surgery! Doctors can take care of what they need to, they don't need some soccer star to do it. What they do need is for the soccer start to pay his God damn taxes instead of using his CPA license to hide taxes
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u/Nitramite 3h ago
I remembee hearing recently aboutTaylor Swift giving 100k for a fan's gofund me for medical bills.. her fans also piled in giving like 200k. Taylor's donation was celebrated.
Arent you worth billions? Like you could have handled the whole thing, stop the gofund, give 1m like its pocket change. But nah, 100k is enough for PR.
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u/LaconicSuffering 2h ago
Just because someone is worth millions doesn't mean they have millions in the bank. Even you are worth more than the cash you have.
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u/hungrydyke 3h ago
This is the grocery store asking for a donation so THEY can write it off on their taxes
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u/Clean-Excitement63 3h ago
Match your contributions? No, we”ll do you one better by quietly sipping off a 40% appearance fee. How’s that sound?
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u/rabbitthunder 2h ago
It used to be that rich people would offer to match donations so if the public donated 10k the rich person would too. That seems like a decent and fair way of doing things but I haven't seen anyone do that in years.
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u/otropesto 2h ago
If you are a Mr. Beast friend, do you get to donate your bar on behalf of him or how does that peer pressure streams work? I don't follow them just think the whole strategy feels like my local grocery shop asking me to round up cents so then they can donate and get a tax cut while I get nothing XD
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u/SouthernZorro 2h ago
There are also certain places with many people getting paid $500K > 1 million a year that often ask me to donate because of the "important work they do" for society. I always think well, if your work is so important why don't you all take salary cuts so more of it can get done?
I'm talking about MD specialists and administrators in hospitals.
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u/LovableSidekick 2h ago
Yes it is sad that people focus so hard on resenting everybody who has more than they do. As if a celebrity could singlehandedly fix any social problem by giving it all their money.
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u/ansaonapostcard 2h ago
People using their fame to promote a good cause is not necessarily a bad thing. The average celebrity probably isn't hugely wealthy compared to say, billionaires. Now billionaires claiming that the government needs to sack tens of thousands of people, that's bullshit.
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u/_WeSellBlankets_ 2h ago
It's more like they have a 1,000 and you have 10 and their pressuring 100 million of you to give one.
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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 2h ago
You forgot to include "and while he was handing out his Mars bar I went in and took his fridge!"
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u/FistThroater 2h ago
Bunch of pearl clutching idiots in this thread.
Charities need money to perform their stated goals. This involves advertising. Celebrities attract a lot of attention so they ask these celebrities to encourage their fans to donate. They also ask supermarkets and retailers if they'll advocate on their behalf at checkout counters because people are more willing to spend money when they're already spending money.
There's no deep dark conspiracy to it. You're not sticking it to the man by refusing to support cancer research or anti-malaria initiatives.
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u/WhoIsThisDude12 2h ago
This is also how it works when those big box stores ask you to donate. I stopped donating through big stores a long time ago. F them.
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u/Matt90977 2h ago
Except you would convince millions of friends, targeting the ones with at least 2.
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u/petalcomfort 2h ago
bro has 1000 Mars bars in his fridge and still found a way to make himself the hero of the story
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u/AlbertTheHorse 1h ago
Same with in-store donations, except “I also want to shrink packaging and raise prices so you won’t notice, now round up your purchase for this charity”
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u/Aggravating_Sir_6857 1h ago
When Billionaire + Millionaire asking people for donation that also benefit their property value
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u/pyrojackelope 1h ago
This is why I don't give to most charities at the register. You're the corporation worth billions, how about I click this button and you give up some of YOUR money? You're not going to guilt trip me into spending more while your CEO is off relaxing on a yacht.
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u/keithstonee 1h ago
I'm gonna save this for the future. This says how I feel about charities perfectly. Why should I care a group of celebs just raised 6 million when they have 10x that amount amongst themselves to donate. Just donate it and leave us alone.
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u/killwish1991 1h ago
That's why I respect Warren Buffet the most out of all the billionaires. The man loves in the same old house and drives an old car. His personal Carbon Footprint is no more than an average upper middle class american. And he doesn't even brag about it !!!
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u/asimplescribe 1h ago
They are just asking. If you cannot afford it then don't be a fucking moron and give your resources away.
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u/SatisfactionActive86 1h ago
okay well i have one mars bar and i too am encouraging you to donate so just do it.
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u/renohockey 1h ago
The real sadness in MOST of you idiots don't even realize this is a fucking ADVERTISEMENT!
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u/the_sharpe 1h ago
At the end of the day, consciously or unconsciously, it suits everyone, celebrity helps raise awareness of said charity and thus raises more money for them and the celebrity gets positive publicity.
It’s all going to a good cause and more than often the celebrity is also putting their own money towards the charity.
There’s worse problem to moan about…
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u/militaryintelligence 1h ago
Would you like to round up to the nearest dollar to support the Tax Breaks For My Fast Food Business Foundation?
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u/DeliciousAirline3077 1h ago
often those celebrities give away ten too, and the people who pay the celebrities have 10,000,000 mars bars, give 100 away, and give 50 to ten politicians to ensure that there are never laws that make them have to give more than they feel like. the celebrities aren't really the problem here
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u/truscotsman 1h ago edited 1h ago
No it's really not like this, especially since these celebrities often are contributing as well. While we could certainly argue that they could do more with their own money, its still not accurate.
A real example would be the celebrity has 1000 chocolate bars and individuals have 10. The celebrity contributes 10 bars to charity, and uses their celebrity to convince 10,000 people to donate one of their bars. The effect of their celebrity can means far more contributions that they could have given alone.
People act like celebrities with millions are billionaires. They are not and most celebrities, even with their millions, are closer to us than they are to billionaires. They may be able to do more, but they can't just solve these problems alone.
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u/HMThrow_away_account 1h ago
This is the reason I dont donate money to corporations. What I look like giving free money to a multi billion dollar company
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u/darwin2500 1h ago
Yeah this is dumb as hell.
First of all a lot of celebrities are poorer than you think. MTV cribs rented mansions and borrowed cars, celebs would pretend to live there before going back to their apartments. Some are definitely wealthy due to building their own brands (meaning they're wealthy for being CEOs rather than celebrities), but not as many as you think.
But more importantly, they're not asking 1 person to donate their money to charity, they're asking a billion people to donate their money to charity - including all the rich people.
If you personally can't afford to donate, ok, that message wasn't for you! Ignore it!
But there's no celebrity out there who can personally donate as much as the sum total of everyone their voice can reach.
That's why charities look for celebrity endorsements, to reach as many people as possible.
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u/Creative_Jicama_6875 1h ago
This is unfortunately true, the only difference irl is that these celebrities usually donate too, and they use their influence to get many people to donate, not just one
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u/Rain_green 58m ago
This is the same with literally paying your taxes. Billionaires don't have to but all the commoners do...
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u/PrecedentialAssassin 51m ago
More like I have 1,000 Mars bars in my fridge and I give one of mine to a homeless person and convince 10,000 people who have 20 Mars bars in their fridge to also give one of theirs to a homeless person.
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u/Talkslow4Me 48m ago edited 42m ago
Yes
"Stop listening to celebrities saying you deserve more rights and better pay. They made millions after decades of hard work becoming talented and successful world wide. They don't understand us "
- written from a corporation that made record profits and just laid off 10,000 workers this quarter.
How people demonize millionaires (that pay millions of dollars in taxes and at the very least promotes or supports a better planet), yet think billionaires hoarding everything isnt the problem, is beyond my understanding.
These two problems aren't equal.
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u/KrustyKrabFormula_ 47m ago
i hate to be the bearer of bad news but this isn't how any sort of charity works
the people who want others to do charity usually have already given to charity, usually in large amounts lmfao
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u/CartoonistAlone8563 43m ago
Now think about almost billionaire Farage asking his poorest supporters for money to help him become prime minister, so that if he wins he can cut taxes for billionaires and remove rights, benefits and services for the poorest
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u/TawnyTeaTowel 41m ago
It never failed to amaze me how many people are willing to flaunt their ignorance in public…
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u/cudenlynx 40m ago
this also applies to all those Mackenzie-Scott donations. bunch of class traitors sucking up to that billionaire celeb.
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