In my experience, people who make a big deal out of their philanthropy are typically doing it to compensate for some other moral deficiency.
What really started to bother me was when he started to make a game out of his giveaways, like “Last person to stop touching the Lamborghini gets to keep it!” and things like that. It just feels wrong, and I can’t quite explain why.
I hope I’m wrong, and so far there is no evidence he’s a secret dickhead, but something about him seems off.
It just feels wrong, and I can’t quite explain why.
It’s essentially throwing a slab of meat into an arena and watching the starved poors fight to the death over it, then watching while you’re served the equivalent of thanksgiving dinner by your butler/maids in a safe climate controlled room.
There comes a point where “philanthropy” simply becomes rich people making games for the poors to win a “prize” and seeing how they react for their own entertainment rather than any sort of benevolence. The lambo example seems pretty much spot on for that.
Glad he’s using his money to do shit that makes some people’s lives better. Strange that he uses it as content… but better than musk hoarding wealth and belittling people on twitter.
So I guess better than my bellwether for a shitty person.
Like I said… I’m super conflicted about shoving a camera in peoples faces while you give them money to help them in dire situations. just so you can get more views…(although, TV has been doing this type of shit for ever, think about the Olympics, every event they have some sob story about the athlete and how they have overcome)
I think it’s super fucked up, but at the same time, they are helping people. Is it more humiliating to do it this way, or to make someone jump through redtape, bureaucracy and what not to get assistance from the state?
I watched the Mr. Beast gets people vision video because I’m all for a youtube fixing peoples vision who didn’t have the funds to do it themselves. Like, that shit is literally life changing. I watched the videos, I watched the Ads, I did it all… however his other content, like staying in a circle or putting your hand on a car, that doesn’t appeal to me.
When people use the argument of “oh, he does a lot of philanthropic work” as a means of defending someone, I just counter it by pointing out that Jimmy Savile did too.
In my experience, people who make a big deal out of their philanthropy are typically doing it to compensate for some other moral deficiency.
What really started to bother me was when he started to make a game out of his giveaways, like “Last person to stop touching the Lamborghini gets to keep it!” and things like that. It just feels wrong, and I can’t quite explain why.
I hope I’m wrong, and so far there is no evidence he’s a secret dickhead, but something about him seems off.
It’s essentially throwing a slab of meat into an arena and watching the starved poors fight to the death over it, then watching while you’re served the equivalent of thanksgiving dinner by your butler/maids in a safe climate controlled room.
There comes a point where “philanthropy” simply becomes rich people making games for the poors to win a “prize” and seeing how they react for their own entertainment rather than any sort of benevolence. The lambo example seems pretty much spot on for that.
So Mr Beast is basically inventing the Hunger Games… sounds about right.
Nah hunger games was to impose fear and prevent a political uprising and revolution. Mr Beast is just the old bloke from squid game lol
That is a really good analogy.
I’m indifferent on the guy.
Glad he’s using his money to do shit that makes some people’s lives better. Strange that he uses it as content… but better than musk hoarding wealth and belittling people on twitter.
So I guess better than my bellwether for a shitty person.
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Like I said… I’m super conflicted about shoving a camera in peoples faces while you give them money to help them in dire situations. just so you can get more views…(although, TV has been doing this type of shit for ever, think about the Olympics, every event they have some sob story about the athlete and how they have overcome)
I think it’s super fucked up, but at the same time, they are helping people. Is it more humiliating to do it this way, or to make someone jump through redtape, bureaucracy and what not to get assistance from the state?
I watched the Mr. Beast gets people vision video because I’m all for a youtube fixing peoples vision who didn’t have the funds to do it themselves. Like, that shit is literally life changing. I watched the videos, I watched the Ads, I did it all… however his other content, like staying in a circle or putting your hand on a car, that doesn’t appeal to me.
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When people use the argument of “oh, he does a lot of philanthropic work” as a means of defending someone, I just counter it by pointing out that Jimmy Savile did too.