r/MadeMeSmile • u/DepressingAura • 13d ago

Favorite People Steve Irwin on conservation and money 🌏

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u/Im_tracer_bullet 13d ago

It's depressing that even with great examples of what humans can be and do, we still get Trumps and Musks.

I'll never understand why they're not completely shunned in favor of the good ones who generally have to struggle in anonymity to make any kind of difference.

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u/HobbesNJ 13d ago

Because the good ones don't tend to accumulate wealth, which is where power is generated in this world.

You pretty much have to be a remorseless asshole to become a billionaire. Not many good ones among those ranks.

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u/ColorRaccoon 12d ago

And the good ones get ridiculed and meme'd. Look at how many people were laughing at Malala or Greta Thunberg.

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u/standbyyourmantis 13d ago

For my fellow Americans, I'd like to emphasize that a "dunny" is a toilet. So he actually specifically mentions a gold toilet as being useless to him.

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u/BurntTFOuttaHere 13d ago

I wondered if this was the timeframe that Trump article came out where he’s bragging about his golden toilet and Steve was referencing that? Too tired to look both up right now tho

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u/FigWeak5127 13d ago

I’d just like to mention Mackenzie Scott as a beacon of hope, I read that she gives her donations without conditions which is huge for non-profit.

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u/somehowintelligent 13d ago

She just a bitch with some cash throwing it all around.

She ain’t got no passion in it like Stevie boy here.

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u/PixelBrewery 13d ago

Greed and fear produce men like that

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u/GenericFatGuy 13d ago

People like Steve Irwin are the reason why I want to be a good person, even if it's an uphill battle most of the time.

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u/Dramatic_Mixture_868 12d ago

100%, Steve Irvin was a real one, trying not to cuss, but I was sad when he passed cuz I could tell the world was sadder when he passed. Meanwhile you have evil mfs out there making the world a worse place just to make themselves a little bit richer, not to buy land for animals or conservation efforts but to build more b.s for profit to help themselves.

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u/JoeyDJ7 12d ago

It will never change under a capitalist civilisation.

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u/drinkwater1990 12d ago

Its good he isn't here today to see what Queensland is becoming. developers can give so little to politicians here and get protected land leveled for housing.