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I wont say an exception is not possible, but billionaires do not donate money. They buy control over something that is important to them. If there are exceptions I have not seen them. Every time you see a billionaire being a philanthropist and actually giving a significant percent of their money look a bit deeper and you will find them actually buying control, not giving money away.

A prime example is Bill Gates. Well known as a philanthropist, primarily for his large scale donation to education. Except what actually happened is he essentially bought a sharing control in the US education system and proceeded to fucked it up terribly. I will believe his intentions were good, but frankly that doesn’t matter. He fucked it up because he is a billionaire and billionaires just can’t give up control. It is how they became billionaires in the first place, it is baked into their minds.

They just can’t accept that Notre Dame isn’t for sell. Because that is what “donations” mean to billionaires. They want to buy a controlling stake in something that they care about, and they have been doing so long they think that this is philanthropy. Because it makes sense to them that if they are going to invest *their* money that they should make sure it is done right. But they generally have no fucking idea what they are doing when it comes to these things.

Anyway if billionaires actually wanted to help the first thing they need to do is let go of their control and pay god damn taxes.

Yeah, that’s why you don’t excuse “donations” as a reason why the rich shouldn’t pay more in taxes. This is exactly why we need their help funding essential services through TAXES. So THEY stay out of what DOES NOT belong to them.

Here is the guardian article

its kind of comforting and terrifying at the same time to see how -stupid- billionaires are when they didnt understand that ‘money to rebuild cathedral’ would almost entirely be ‘we need to hire over 300 workmen and pay them, to work, for about five to ten years to do the repairs’

like they thought you throw money at it, the building manifests itself whole with your name on a large brass plaque without the intervention of masons, glaziers, carpenters, ecc