She wasn’t a billionaire, and was pretty far back in line for the guillotine, but I’m inclined to agree. Quick search shows a net worth of around $650 million, apparently reconciling the absence of taxation with an organization that donates books to kids. So, her philanthropy still amounts to crumbs, and she still hoarded an obscene amount of wealth in the face of a staggering level of suffering induced by poverty.
She was among the best of the worst, but that doesn’t make her good.
Being poor doesn’t make you good, but hoarding wealth at that magnitude definitely makes you bad.
What have you done?
Dafuq does that matter here? This thread isn’t about me. I could be an absolute shit stain of a human being, would that have any impact on your perception of Dolly Parton? Or any other hoarder of wealth?
If it actually is important to you, I’ve literally dedicated my life to bringing comfort and recovery to those suffering by dumping most of my waking hours into a career in nursing: I’ll admit the past decade or so have turned me into a salty mofo… there’s a lot of bullshit happening around us, locally and globally, and my idiot countrymen responded to that shitstorm by putting a pedophile Nazi in the Whitehouse… twice. So, I’ve lost a lot of respect for my community, but I still persist (for some fucking reason) with the mindset that doing good is actually worth striving for, so I keep showing up to wipe strangers’ asses, cuz that’s what they need.
You’ll notice I did neither. My take here isn’t in the spirit of being jealous or mean, it is in support of those whose suffering is aggravated by the obscenely selfish ultra-rich.
This isn’t some vendetta - it’s an acknowledgement that humanity simply cannot afford people like that.
Man… Why’d you have to go and make this political.
Being rich doesn’t automatically make you a terrible evil person. Dolly was one of the good gals. Can’t we just mourn her for who she was as a person not the status of her bank account!
People are MOURNING her? A RICH Person? NOT celebrating? HOW do we Copy this? HOW HOW HOW!
-Billionaires who will CONTINUE Destroying our Planet Education Future Goods Services and General Lives!
A billionaire never gave my kids free books. She was a millionaire and while she wasn’t a socialist she didn’t forget she was working class.
She wasn’t a billionaire, and was pretty far back in line for the guillotine, but I’m inclined to agree. Quick search shows a net worth of around $650 million, apparently reconciling the absence of taxation with an organization that donates books to kids. So, her philanthropy still amounts to crumbs, and she still hoarded an obscene amount of wealth in the face of a staggering level of suffering induced by poverty.
She was among the best of the worst, but that doesn’t make her good.
Being poor doesn’t make you good. Doing meaningful things does and she did a lot of them.
What have you done?
Being poor doesn’t make you good, but hoarding wealth at that magnitude definitely makes you bad.
Dafuq does that matter here? This thread isn’t about me. I could be an absolute shit stain of a human being, would that have any impact on your perception of Dolly Parton? Or any other hoarder of wealth?
If it actually is important to you, I’ve literally dedicated my life to bringing comfort and recovery to those suffering by dumping most of my waking hours into a career in nursing: I’ll admit the past decade or so have turned me into a salty mofo… there’s a lot of bullshit happening around us, locally and globally, and my idiot countrymen responded to that shitstorm by putting a pedophile Nazi in the Whitehouse… twice. So, I’ve lost a lot of respect for my community, but I still persist (for some fucking reason) with the mindset that doing good is actually worth striving for, so I keep showing up to wipe strangers’ asses, cuz that’s what they need.
…how about you?
I have made it a point not to be jealous of others and say mean things about them when they’re dead.
You’ll notice I did neither. My take here isn’t in the spirit of being jealous or mean, it is in support of those whose suffering is aggravated by the obscenely selfish ultra-rich.
This isn’t some vendetta - it’s an acknowledgement that humanity simply cannot afford people like that.
Man… Why’d you have to go and make this political.
Being rich doesn’t automatically make you a terrible evil person. Dolly was one of the good gals. Can’t we just mourn her for who she was as a person not the status of her bank account!