As millions of jobless Americans line up for food and others risk their lives delivering essential services, the nation’s billionaires are making conspicuous donations—$100 million from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos for food banks, billions from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for a coronavirus vaccine, thousands of ventilators and N95 masks from Elon Musk, $25 million from the Walton family and its Walmart foundation. The list goes on.
I don’t mean to be uncharitable, but much of this is self-serving rubbish.
First off, the amounts involved are tiny relative to the fortunes behind them. Bezos’ $100 million amounts to about 11 days of his […]
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