He’s completely dead inside and has turned his entire life into a slop maximization algorithm. I don’t want to go chasing it down right now, but he basically never stops “working” and considers every waking moment in terms of the opportunity cost associated with not working, up to and including shaming his girlfriend for costing him money by wanting a date night. Could there be a moment of real empathy under there? Maybe. But I’m not convinced he does anything for any reason besides self promotion/profit generation until proven otherwise.
He’s an odd character. The people from his small community in NC have nothing really bad to say about him from what I’ve heard, but his whole schtick is basically conspicuous charity. Which again, is better than no charity, but the fact that the Ouch My Balls guy is popular because social welfare and social services are so bad is worrying.
He does legitimately put everything back into his garbage or into charity though. Dude still just live in a normal house in Greenville NC, and does a lot for the area.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up just running for mayor or something there at some point…
He does legitimately put everything back into his garbage or into charity though. Dude still just live in a normal house in Greenville NC, and does a lot for the area.
He is literally a billionaire. The fact that he is the kind of shitty billionaire who chooses not to live like one doesn’t improve that. His “charity” is performative garbage that hurts more than helps because of the way it makes people complacent and redirects attention from actually worthwhile efforts to stuff that makes mr beast richer.
Definitely not defending him, he just has a major cult of personality in his direct area that I see since I live in the state. Clearly he’s done enough to make people in that area actually kinda like him.
The big problem is that he’s able to garner support doing essentially selfish bullshit.
That wasn’t aimed at you specifically, some of the comments on this post are really, really concerning with the amount of slack they’re giving a billionaire who got his wealth from “doing charity”
diverting charity from stuff that’s actually effective to his spectacle can be negative charity. i forget all the details but i remember a few years ago he was in on some river trash thing that was just worse than a different thing conservationists were already doing.
Agreed, he’s not like some altruistic super selfless individual with some grand vision of an equitable future for all. He’s just some weirdo who’s so obsessed with his clout that he will literally just give money away so people like him. Not in a way that fixes the underlying issue, or even in a way that promotes some private interest like most liberal/conservative/religious charities. He’s just a selfish chaotic neutral.
He’s completely dead inside and has turned his entire life into a slop maximization algorithm. I don’t want to go chasing it down right now, but he basically never stops “working” and considers every waking moment in terms of the opportunity cost associated with not working, up to and including shaming his girlfriend for costing him money by wanting a date night. Could there be a moment of real empathy under there? Maybe. But I’m not convinced he does anything for any reason besides self promotion/profit generation until proven otherwise.
He’s an odd character. The people from his small community in NC have nothing really bad to say about him from what I’ve heard, but his whole schtick is basically conspicuous charity. Which again, is better than no charity, but the fact that the Ouch My Balls guy is popular because social welfare and social services are so bad is worrying.
He does legitimately put everything back into his garbage or into charity though. Dude still just live in a normal house in Greenville NC, and does a lot for the area.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up just running for mayor or something there at some point…
He is literally a billionaire. The fact that he is the kind of shitty billionaire who chooses not to live like one doesn’t improve that. His “charity” is performative garbage that hurts more than helps because of the way it makes people complacent and redirects attention from actually worthwhile efforts to stuff that makes mr beast richer.
Definitely not defending him, he just has a major cult of personality in his direct area that I see since I live in the state. Clearly he’s done enough to make people in that area actually kinda like him.
The big problem is that he’s able to garner support doing essentially selfish bullshit.
That wasn’t aimed at you specifically, some of the comments on this post are really, really concerning with the amount of slack they’re giving a billionaire who got his wealth from “doing charity”
diverting charity from stuff that’s actually effective to his spectacle can be negative charity. i forget all the details but i remember a few years ago he was in on some river trash thing that was just worse than a different thing conservationists were already doing.
Agreed, he’s not like some altruistic super selfless individual with some grand vision of an equitable future for all. He’s just some weirdo who’s so obsessed with his clout that he will literally just give money away so people like him. Not in a way that fixes the underlying issue, or even in a way that promotes some private interest like most liberal/conservative/religious charities. He’s just a selfish chaotic neutral.