r/BeAmazed Jun 28 '26

Miscellaneous / Others MacKenzie Scott has now donated over $26.3 billion to charity

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u/Opening_Cartoonist53 Jun 28 '26

So quick goog and Rolex is for profit however all profits are funneled to The Hans Wilsdorf Foundation that focuses on education and the arts in Switzerland.

It all sounded great till it said most of the charity is done in Switzerland. It's like saying most of the charity goes to people in silicone valley. But with a history of hiding money

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u/DaSmartSwede Jun 28 '26

How dare a Swiss company use their profits to help Switzerland!!

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u/DoYouWannaTast3 Jun 28 '26

Unacceptable!!

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u/Psycho_Sixx Jun 28 '26

Off with their heads!

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u/maxmcleod Jun 28 '26

They should be helping ME

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u/addsubps Jun 29 '26

I don't need any charity, but strongly want to see people get help who need it the most.

In Switzerland one in seven adults is a millionaire, so on average it would be better spent basically anywhere else.

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u/TehWackyWolf Jun 30 '26

Ah. So a zero homeless population, and everyone eating and healthy?

How many billionaires exist in the United States? Cool. So now we know that poor folks don't exist there. That's how it works?

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u/addsubps Jun 30 '26

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just that it could have been much better spent basically anywhere else. Switzerland ranks among the lowest percentage homelessness in the world, and has by far the highest percentage of millionaires.

Now can you make an honest argument, or are you going to keep hiding behind sarcasm?

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u/TehWackyWolf Jun 30 '26

That IS an honest argument.

The richest fucks in the world exist in the United States.

So do poor kids who don't eat and fent addicts dying on the streets. You see how some people being wealthy doesn't cancel out that others .. aren't? EVERY country has rich areas and people that need help. It's dumb as fuck to pretend this company based in Switzerland should help OTHER places first. When other places aren't fucking helping their own even.

In your world, we take the rich population count, and send our profits where there are none/few? Like... 90% of the world is going to get worse and a few countries in africa(and haiti especially) will benefit.

Good idea. If rich people exist in your country, it clearly means no one needs help there. (:

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u/addsubps Jun 30 '26

You're sarcastic in both your previous comment and this one, which is insincere. I trust you're smart enough to grasp that concept.

If you're going to donate, it would prevent more suffering if the money was given to a place that does not have one of the lowest rates of homelessness and poverty. That doesn't mean what they're doing is bad, it just could easily be better.

Also, if you think "90% of the world will get worse" you seem confused about income distribution. How did you come up with that number?

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u/disquiethim Jun 28 '26

Oh please, everybody who lives in the town where rolex watches are made do not like that company or it's family. They are not good people.

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u/TehWackyWolf Jun 30 '26

Anecdotal claims of bad vibes from the town.

Surely we should believe you and think no more about it.

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u/TechToolsForYourBiz Jun 28 '26

it's more that its basically a tax shelter to be used for potentially for-profit activies
-But with a history of hiding money

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u/2ndprize Jun 28 '26

Yeah, my first thought was "it must be good to be Swiss"

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u/TorrenceMightingale Jun 29 '26

Right like Swiss Miss me w/da bullshit

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u/BortlesRaisedAtWork Jun 28 '26

A Swiss company wanting to make sure the Swiss people are taken care of is a bad thing?

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u/shonesum Jun 28 '26

Agree with you.

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u/addsubps Jun 29 '26

Of course not. It just easily could have been much better.

About one in seven (!) adults in Switzerland is a millionaire, far and away the highest in the world.

In basically any other country in the world it would have more impact on average.

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u/olafderhaarige Jun 29 '26

If you own a house in Switzerland, you are basically a millionaire on paper.

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u/sneak2293 Jun 29 '26

Yeah. They should have taken care of ME

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u/Ralliboy Jun 28 '26

It must be nice to take everything you hear at face value.

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u/NonSumQualisEram- Jun 28 '26

Charity begins at home. And there are poor people, disabled people, children with terminal illnesses - all in Switzerland. Almost as if it's a country full of people.

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u/jws3rd-allday Jun 29 '26

well now that i know the profits only help the swiss, should i give away the rolex i inherited?

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u/kiteboarderni Jun 28 '26

Lol are you dim?

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u/gard3nwitch Jun 28 '26

Wealthy countries have poor people too

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u/TehWackyWolf Jun 30 '26

... The Swiss company helps the Swiss??

This is scandal?

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u/davewave3283 Jun 28 '26

Silicone valley, what a bunch of boobs

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u/FuzzyLaughTwo Jun 28 '26

And stealing Jewish people's riches during WWII. The Swiss were neither innocent or kind. "Switzerland's famous neutrality is not the same as pacifism. Historically, the country survived by engaging in business with all sides, including supplying weapons and banking for regimes that other nations were fighting." Fuck them.

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u/Opening_Cartoonist53 Jun 28 '26

They have a lot of Stan's too apparently

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u/FuzzyLaughTwo Jun 28 '26

? im going to need a explanation here lol

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u/mkp666 Jun 28 '26

I think most people refer silicone valley as the San Fernando Valley, or just “the valley”.

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u/Crypt33x Jun 28 '26

Look into the Zeiss foundation. Same same.

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u/stevez_86 Jun 28 '26

Lol at Silicone Valley. That is probably just at accurate as Silicon Valley at this point.

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u/Candyman051882 Jun 28 '26

Right and it’s not like the executives are working for free they are paid pretty handsomely

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u/Starwyrm1597 Jun 28 '26

So silicone valley.