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Yes. Every time we have some crisis people look to billionaires to fix things. I wish folks would stop that.
It shows a dangerous naïveté about how things work and what you can realistically expect. https://twitter.com/rbreich/status/1249378031384383489
It shows a dangerous naïveté about how things work and what you can realistically expect. https://twitter.com/rbreich/status/1249378031384383489
We shouldn’t have to have economic saviors.
You spend any decent amount of time trying to get high net-worth individuals to give to charity and you realize how hard it is to get someone worth billions of dollars to come up off of even $25K to help other people sometimes.
I literally have had someone brag to me about how much money he had, but when I asked for some of it to help people, the subject changed faster than you can change the channel on a TV. 
Yes, there are wealthy people that do help in meaningful ways, but far more do not.
Yes, there are wealthy people that do help in meaningful ways, but far more do not.
When it comes to The @HumanUtility, there are people who write me and are ashamed they can only donate $5 at the moment, but they want to give because they can empathize w/ the people we help.
I have talked to millionaires and billionaires who wouldn't even donate that same $5.
I have talked to millionaires and billionaires who wouldn't even donate that same $5.
But, at the end of the day, we are in the situation we are in because we have a deficit not of money, but of empathy.
