Billionaire vs. billionaire. The clash of a feminist titan with a neo-Nazi sympathizer! Get your popcorn and enjoy the tale of how Mackenzie Scott managed to infuriate super-pig Elon Musk. Granted, he’s the richest man in the world–worth $300-400 billion, while she has only $32 billion or so.
But she has made a practice of giving generously to worthwhile nonprofits while he gives away as little as possible.
Marcie Jones has the story at Wonkette, and it’s a great read.
It begins:
Billionaires are mostly despicable Montgomery-Burns type people. But then there’s MacKenzie Scott, one of the few ultra-rich who doesn’t deserve to get tarred and feathered in the coming revolution! She’s the third-wealthiest woman in the United States, 38th in the world, and has now given away $19.25 billion (with a B!) in 2,524 charitable gifts, with a focus on racial equality, LGBTQ+ equality, democracy, and climate change.
She and her small team seek out nonprofits operating in communities facing high food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital. And then she gives away the money with no strings attached. Which is unusual in philanthropy! Also unusual, she’s pretty quiet about it. She has a web site that shows what she has donated to, but there’s no MacKenzie Scott ribbon cuttings, or buildings with her name on them when she drops a check. She donates, then she dips. And she plans to “keep at it until the safe is empty.”
Elon Musk warned that she is destroying Western civilization.
Read it and see what you think.,
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Wealthy and powerful people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump are the ones destroying Western civilization, not individuals as rare as Mackenzie Scott.
“Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless” (Ecclesiastes 5:10). Insatiability is one of the defining characteristics of greed. It is unrelenting—the only thing it wants is: “More.”
“The ‘Eye of the Needle’ was indeed a narrow gateway into Jerusalem. Since camels were heavily loaded with goods and riders, they would need to be un-loaded in order to pass through. Therefore, the analogy is that a rich man would have to similarly unload his material possessions in order to enter heaven.”
Who is unloading their material possessions? It isn’t Musk and Trump. This is what they will cause to happen.
1 Timothy 6:10
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.”
I also think that Musk and Trump having nothing but contempt for what the Bible teaches and warns us about.
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Whether a believer or not, the Bible has a lot of wisdom packed into it. Tends to show up across a lot of religions beyond Judaism and Christianity, too. Humankind seems to need to find a reason for it’s existence beyond “survival of the fittest.”
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I wrote a blog post that said that “Bill Gates Ideas Are Better than Yours” because Gates got rich by working the system and then because he could finance his own ideas, they got funded, most of which were poor investments. Allowing individuals to accumulate vast quantities of wealth is counterproductive. Yes, many of them give some of that wealth away but who is to say that is a more effective way to distribute that wealth because we do not have the other options available to examine. As a general rule, I favor ideas worked out by the many rather than the few. I do not see any advantage in letting the “few,” like Elon Musk, dictate what is to be done in this country.
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Musk doesn’t have any effect on philanthropy because while he is required to give away 5% of his foundation’s assets, he always fails to reach that mark and his gifts are inscrutable. He actually doesn’t care about anyone but himself and some of his children.
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Which means he spends his money on what he wants, like getting Trump elected, etc.
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