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
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.
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.
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.
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