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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
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Robber barons at least had the decency to build libraries and give them to the people. Modern billionaire dipshits create the Foundation For Excellence And Pursuit Of Excellent Higher Pursuits Through Pursuing Excellence, give it a $5B endowment, appoint their wife CEO, and funnel money into doing eugenics in Africa.
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That's probably a really romantic ideal of the tycoons of the Gilded Age. Philanthropy may have started there, but building large civic works with their names thrown on them wasn't *that* altruistic, or if it was, it sure came with a lot of clout. We've come a long way from ultra-rich people just building something cool and naming it after themselves in the name of charity. All of the most beneficial non-profits in the US—501(c)3s—are partially or fully funded by charitable donations for all sorts of causes and initiatives. There are even 501s whose sole mission it is to create grants and find the proper recipients to disperse them to. Without them, you'd see a society in meltdown.