r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Aug 22 '26
Not My Cup Of Tea❗️ Of course this would be his opinion on the topic...🙄
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u/OutrageousCrab9224 Aug 22 '26
No they are making HIS world worse
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u/DookieShoez Aug 22 '26
And since we are talking about the ding dong who thinks that the world is a simulation and we are all NPCs, things are starting to make sense.
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u/Shlublord Aug 23 '26
What’s crazy is they actually aren’t. Only in his mind they are because he hates the rest of us so so much
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u/Whole_Ant2468 Aug 22 '26
Ya all should be using this picture
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u/snakebight Aug 22 '26
Other than hair plugs, what plastic surgery did this man have done to change from ultra dork to just regular ugly?
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u/zenmaster_B Aug 22 '26
The bigger question is who gives a rip what Elon Musk says anyway? Silly little man child with no sense
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u/isthereadrwho Aug 22 '26
Well she isn't responsible for killing thousands of children Worldwide like you, so clearly she isn't causing as much damage! You know assholes in glass houses and all that
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u/StrengthChemical653 Aug 22 '26
I'm just going to jump ahead in the comments to explain for people who (actually correctly) point out how some charities are actually bad.
Yes, these people that agree with Elon are, technically, correct. Lot's of charities are very "top heavy" and result in sometimes seeing only a ratio of $0.05 per every $1.00 donated being used for the cause. It should be noted that these "bad charities" are not actually making things "worse" per-se but just capitalizing on a financial situation.
HOWEVER (a big one)
Mackenzie Scott doesn't just throw the money out there. She has a specific team (Yield Giving) that has specific 3rd party programs that vet, donate, then circle back to these charities. (Bridgespan Group, Lever for Change, Candid, and Charity Navigator,)
In fact, Her and her team have actually revoked donations as a result of them mishandling them.
Also, another REALLY BIG HOWEVER, is that in the US, these charities are doing something where there lacks support from the government. In situations, like DOGE cutting The Trevor Project, CARE, and HIAS) there was now $0.00 out of $1.00 being used to help people in those programs.
Some would argue that even getting $0.50 per $1.00 donated is better than getting $0 from the government that is supposed to have a program in place to help those who are most vulnerable.
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u/flactulantmonkey Aug 22 '26
Even if all the money stayed in the top heavy management structure, she’s successfully removed it from the 1%. The levels of money she’s moving, it’s more about the gross effect of the flow into various economic brackets. The crazy thing to me is that, as far as I know, her net worth hasn’t actually dropped while doing all this.
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u/StrengthChemical653 Aug 22 '26
Her net worth is actually proof of just how messed up our system is to make sure billionaires STAY billionaires.
If you were handed 10 Billion Dollars, all you have to do to keep 10 Billion Dollars is... almost nothing.
You start with $10 Billion, invest it into Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, Apple, Etc. and leave it alone, at the end of the year you yeild 9 - 50% growth... just like that, your $10 Billion is around $12-15 Billion.
And with the donations, you use those against any taxable revenue to taper off any bleeding of money.
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u/StrengthChemical653 Aug 23 '26
The amount of money to end world hunger is around $50 Billion dollars.
Scott doesn't have that money to give nor would she be able to perpetuate charitable donations by liquifying all interest-based finances.
But her team (not really her) has donated to Feeding America, Food Security Equity Impact fund, and A LOT of Meals on Wheels programs. Effectively feeding around 40 Million people.
And, if you're curious; BOTH Elon Musk and Mackenzie Scott donate to Feeding America...
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u/ActuaryLost9689 Aug 25 '26
I just looked it up. Musk is estimated to have given 500 Million outside of his foundation (which basically remains his money and isn't a charity). While receiving 2 Billion (4X) that amount back as tax benefits. Guy remains an asshole.
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u/BlowDrierBettie Aug 22 '26
Some folks just can't seem to wrap their heads around the concept of charity.
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u/Initial_Parsley6608 Aug 22 '26
does this man have any followers
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u/Oh-Gi-Yu7052 Aug 22 '26
None that aren’t bots his own companies made to stroke his ego
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u/SaltMage5864 Aug 22 '26
SpaceX had a group of people who's sole job was to keep him occupied so the actual engineers could get stuff done
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u/Familiar-Check7353 Aug 22 '26
Elon continuously breathing keeps making the world worse. Probably dirty Depends residue
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u/WillyVlautinRules Aug 22 '26
I'll tell you what would make the world instantly better. But I would be banned here.
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u/Markjohn66 Aug 23 '26
Child murdering fascist says what?
https://giphy.com/gifs/vjSTdODhuVnAVvu9pV
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u/Flat_Demand_8341 Aug 22 '26
Do you read the Washington Post article on Joe Lonsdale and the Cicero Institute? Scary stuff and he and Elon are good friends, Elon is mentioned in the article too.
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u/VioletShogun Aug 22 '26
Extrapolate and Elon must think Jesus was an idiot to hang on the cross to carry the sins of others. And so many false Christians love this walking talking golden calf from South Africa.
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u/txcreative20 Aug 22 '26
Elon is as corrupt as they are deport him back to South Africa. And keep him out of US politics!
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u/ConnecticutBob Aug 22 '26
Money is this dork's religion. To not worship money completely is blasphemy in his mind. What a pathetic emotionally crippled little man.
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u/jerrymarver Aug 22 '26
Does Elon Musk even know what charity is? I don't think that it is in his DNA.
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u/BlueRibbon8000 Aug 22 '26
Same thing with Bezos saying, "Taxing the 1% wouldn't make a difference." Why the hell should we take his word for it?
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u/PickedLastLemon Aug 22 '26
Elon only cares about Elon. He has ZERO friends. His adult children hate him. His baby mommas hate him. His employees hate him because he's made it very clear that everyone is replaceable/disposable. Dude has made the planet worse. Just like his father before him.
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u/Aggravating_Cycle_29 Aug 22 '26
Don’t worry Elon, nobody’s asking you to donate anything. Don’t get excited.
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u/Novel-Letterhead-217 Aug 23 '26
How dare she invest in minorities, do you know how much she could lose if she just invested in spaceX like Elon thinks all rich people should do
S/ for any clarification needed
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u/Organic-Athlete-7344 Aug 22 '26
He thinks GLP-1s make him look better, if better is a boiled chicken with the skin wrinkling off.
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u/TedTyro Aug 22 '26
...and glibly cutting off life-saving aid to children doesnt affect their aliveness.
The man is in a perpetual delusion of ego-saving rationalisation.
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u/Striking-Rhubarb-385 Aug 22 '26
I am sure she gives to pro trans equality organizations and he has rejected his trans daughter.
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u/CommonConundrum51 Aug 22 '26
This is why you don't let psychopaths into the country, regardless of how rich they are.
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u/Geetzromo Aug 22 '26
Because they make him look like the greedy, insufferable, piece of garbage that he is. She is a wonderful human.
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u/TechnicalWhore Aug 22 '26
You'd think that a man worth a trillion plus - on paper - would realize that a little discretionary noblesse oblige would do wonders for your public image. Say he tossed $5B - sand off the beach - to food banks or opium recovery clinics in rural America - why he'd reap huge reputational benefits. He'd be wise to look back to the Gilded Age and see what the Robber Barons did win over (or deflect) public opinion. At the end of the day he and his family and employees must live in the real world. Its better to be welcomed.
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u/Drive7Nine Aug 23 '26
Typical right-wing propaganda: "We don't need the government to provide for the poor and disadvantaged. If we could just get the government out of it, charities would step in to care for these people."
Billionaire gives a bunch of money to charity.
Right-wing reaction: "Giving money to charity makes the world worse."
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u/Ashamed_Echidna5748 Aug 23 '26
Oh yeah, remember when bezos had to give away half his wealth to his ex wife? I bet that financially crippled him so bad. I bet if you checked on him now, he'd be a husk of a man without a cent to his name. Even more proof that we shouldn't ever tax our precious billionaires.
/s
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u/fuji44a Aug 23 '26
When I was growing up, way back in the mists of time, there was a reasonably well known phycologist call Dr. Murray Banks, who used to say, anyone pursuing just wealth, had deeper issues, the best you can say about them is they are suffering in comfort, Must never made anything, he never invented anything, he never created anything, his life has been purely the pursuit of wealth, he cares not for the damage, mayhem or misery that pursuit has cost others, he will not repair any of that damage.
Of course he would attack others who don't share his desire for wealth, nothing his life has not been bought, including the love of others.
He simply cannot understand how others think or act, outside of that idea.
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u/Limp-Bug9285 Aug 23 '26
She’s given huge chunks of her fortune to historically Black colleges like Howard University in part because of her literature and writing professor at Princeton, Toni Morrison, a graduate of Howard. Maybe she’s giving back because she wouldn’t have co-founded an online book company without her love of books.
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u/vestarules Aug 23 '26
Mask has got to clean himself better than he is. He’s got some sort of fuzzy gray brown crap on his face. It’s disgusting.
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u/my-smiles Aug 23 '26
Anyone else notice that now that USAid went away the worst Ebola outbreak ever is occurring?
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u/DayRevolutionary1448 Aug 24 '26
This is a pathetic response from a human being who is able to change the world, but chooses not to!
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u/hanqingjao Aug 24 '26
Yeah, because he's a sociopath who doesn't believe in empathy.
Remember those altruism social experiments? Societies only work if everyone agrees to help each other. When enough people try to take advantage of the system for personal gain, the whole thing falls apart.
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u/Ok_Discipline_8190 Aug 25 '26
On judgment day he will try to use his billions to get a pass. BIBLE SAYS ALL WILL STAND BEFORE GOD AND BE JUDGED. He is not as smart as he thinks he is
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u/Sgtkeebler Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
From what I understand her donations just wiped out 40 billion from people’s medical debt. Thats freaking sad that people have to rely on the charity from 1 rich person instead of the American medical system being better.
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u/Low-Spirit6436 Aug 25 '26
Probably because he wants all of the impoverished people who live in shyte hole countries to just die already. Dude is a Nazi from apartheid South Africa whose father was an emerald dealer. I've seen him more than once doing the Nazi salute to crowds full of white nationalist. He'd rather have that money going to either AI or some other tech stuff. Definitely doesn't want that kind of money going towards poor caucasians in southern red states or any poor people, period. Not Saint Jude's or Shriners Hospitals, fuk Puerto Rico and their probably getting drinking water, kids with cancer, military veterans, SPCA, food banks, affordable housing, health care, raising the current federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour
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u/Ill-Lake7700 Aug 25 '26
Why doesn’t he give it a try see what happens!
Stop having anchor babies with American women!
Can’t be any worse the way he and Trump are running it now!
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u/Buddhas_Warrior Aug 22 '26
Ok Elon, please explain and tell is how to fix things (since you're so smart)
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u/siantmercury Aug 22 '26
So like. Did he explain why he thinks that or is he just saying insane nonsense in public?
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u/Conscious-Anybody17 Aug 22 '26
I don't like the guy, but It would be nice if there was source you could cite.
To show that he actually said this deplorable stuff.
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u/Catpixfever Aug 22 '26
It’s difficult to vet the recipients of funds. But do you know what can solve this issue? People can do that, people who are hired with money.
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u/PsychologicalTea1888 Aug 22 '26
His thinking must be that nobody gets and handout or a handup. You simply survive or die. Sounds very Libertarian and ruthless.
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u/Euphoric_Anxiety_162 Aug 22 '26
His influence doesn't appear to benefit the US, despite what he & his investors may say. See the whole picture -it us huge.
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u/Skittleavix Aug 22 '26
Well, when your definition of "making things better" is giving everything to you, then of course it would seem worse.
This man's life will not end well if he keeps this up. Someone's gonna take a shot at him. I'm not encouraging that or saying it's right - I'm saying that if you keep killing people, telling people that empathy is the enemy, and taking all the resources for yourself, then yeah - someone, somewhere, sometime, is gonna get real fucking pissed off and take a shot at you. That's just human nature.
But then again I wouldn't expect Elon to understand a god damn thing about human nature or self-preservation beyond the boundaries of greed.
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u/NormCormier-Mccoll81 Aug 22 '26
The Fact that the Beached Humpback Elon Exists. Is truly Making the World Worse for Humanity as a Whole.
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u/Ok_Star_4136 Royal Watcher Aug 22 '26
Breaking news: Man with a trillion dollars thinks you're spending your money to make the world a worse place.
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u/SaintCuckoo Aug 22 '26
So, Miss Rachel is the anti-Christ for saying that all children deserve to be safe, and Mackenzie Scott is a monster for donating a massive amount of money to meaningful charities, but Elon is a saint and a scholar for attempting to, and largely succeeding, dismantle programs that keep people alive in times of need? This is the wildest timeline.
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u/Tom1952Phx Aug 22 '26
So says the DOGE killer. Thousands dead many more suffering And this guy can’t say I was wrong. He keeps spouting his garbage. A tech wizard but destruction of so much at his hand is massive
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u/PUuSTiNKA Aug 22 '26
Yeah because a person hoarding tons of money is helping the world...What an idiot!
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u/ArjunaIndrastra Aug 22 '26
Correction. You hoarding wealth and refusing to give back in addition to the damage your farcical DOGE did are the kinds of things that make the world worse. Apartheid, that thing you and your father loved so much, made the world worse.
I could go on, but you get the idea. He won't, but those with an IQ above room temperature do.
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u/psilocin72 Aug 22 '26
But look how many supposedly religious people LOVE Elon. That’s why I can’t even take them seriously— they don’t even believe in their own faith