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[-] mactan@lemmy.ml 44 points 10 months ago

philanthropy is the industry of laundering money and reputations

[-] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You sound like someone who doesn't know much about philanthropy and falls prey to confirmation bias as much as anyone. The fact that you put money laundering ahead of tax-write offs is telling. He's not a mexican drug cartel buying US real estate.

Like I said, he's a stealth philanthropist to the degree that it does next to nothing to burnish his reputation. The only reason I know about it is because I'm in land conservation. He doesn't seek out any press attention at all, and the limited number of news articles about his donations are a testament to that. I am not saying that Epic business practices don't have issues that are common between his competitors, but I am saying that he himself is not a slimeball. His personality is about as far as you can get from a psychopathic self-enriching tech bro. Basically he hit the jackpot with Unreal, then fortnite.

[-] heyoni@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the insight. It’s quite tiring to watch human beings distilled into binary good or evil based on something as innocuous as adding proton support to a game…

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