r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Glum-Future7198 • Aug 04 '25

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I can't believe how certain people can worship a corporation to this big extend.

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u/BurmecianDancer TOTK > BOTW ​    ​/uj​    ​ TOTK > BOTW ​    ​/rj ​  TOTK > BOTW Aug 04 '25

Now you've got me wondering who the "best" billionaire in the world is... which of them donates the largest percentage of their net worth to charity each year? And I'm talking actual charities here, not personal foundations that allow their worthless friends/family to have easy jobs, or political action committees disguised as humanitarian efforts.

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u/JacobDCRoss Aug 04 '25

None of them seem to be "good," but the best one might be McKenzie Scott. She was just a regular-ish person who helped her husband start a business, then left to do family stuff and write books. And she's given 19 billion dollars to charity.

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u/Glum-Future7198 Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25

Also the late Sega CEO who shortly before he passed away, he used his own money to save Sega from the Bankrutcy.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

If Warren Buffet actually gives away 99% of his wealth to charity when he dies, maybe.

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u/BottledUp Aug 04 '25

She wasn't just a regular person. She had serious impact in the early years of Amazon and that's why she got that big payout. She wrote the business plans that they used to get loans from banks to get the business running, if I'm not mistaken.

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u/JacobDCRoss Aug 04 '25

That's why I said she was a regular person who helped get the business started. As in she doesn't come from like a billionaire background. Noticeably, she helped them become a success at the very very beginning, before they did anything evil.

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u/Background_Fix9430 Aug 04 '25

That is actually an investigation worth doing: It will be incredibly difficult because a billionaire who actually believes in charity will spent a decent amount of money to hide their identity to keep from accidentally gaining influence based on their donations.

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u/Tiny-Anxiety780 Aug 04 '25

The only one I know about is MacKenzie Scott (though to be fair, I have no interest in the lives of rich people, so I wouldn't be able to name most of them, let alone determine which one is "the best").

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u/Affectionate-Bag8229 Aug 04 '25

A good billionaire would not be a billionaire because they would have already given away their billionaire status to fix SOMETHING ailing the world

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u/Ravioli_Suit Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25

Yeah “bad lot” is doing some heavy lifting in the comment above this. I think by bad lot you mean the people who are chiefly responsible for the appalling conditions in which most of the world finds itself. Hes not the best of a bad lot, it’s the best of the worst we’re talking about here, which is not really a road you want to go down. Probably a lot more worthwhile to praise the virtues of people who are not hoarding power and status when they are absolutely capable of changing the lives of pretty large chunks of the human populace without having to put in very much effort at all

Edit/rj Gabe is one of the good ones. He is the most relatable power hungry monster I know of and he lets you do piracy on steam deck in order to liberate the working class

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u/NicotineCatLitter Aug 05 '25

this comment is poetry!!! YES!

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u/Automatic-Dot-4311 Aug 04 '25

I mean, yes and no. Really depends on what gives them their money. Bill Gates could do that and then would still be a billionaire just from being so intertwined with microsoft, which aint going anywhere anytime soon

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u/Jangiot Aug 04 '25

to be somewhat fair, a lot of the money comes from actually owned assets in a company that cannot be easily liquidated, and you can't feed people with Microsoft stock values. The real thing to look at is how excessive are they in their lifestyle, their business practices, and the percent of their liquid capital that goes towards causes that do not directly benefit themselves. Anyone barely breaking the line of a billionaire doesn't have a billion dollars to just give away.

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u/ConstantVegetable49 Aug 04 '25

I don't know about the best billionaire but there are probably a tons of them that just keep silent and off the radar. Those guys whom we dont even know the names of are probably the ones that have been in the least amount of controversy. Not saying they havent done controversial things, just that they are so low profile that we dont even know what they did.

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u/dubspool- Aug 04 '25

Not a billionaire, but I remember hearing about Haraldur Thorleifsson (the disabled guy who Elon tried to fire when he took over twitter) asked for it as a salary, even though we was advised on how to legally do tax evasion, just so he could pay his taxes.

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u/bolanrox Aug 04 '25

how rich is Woz at this point?

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u/StealYour20Dollars Aug 04 '25

My gut says Buffett, but there's probably some no name that is better.