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The Myth of Philanthropy: Why Billionaires Won’t Save Us

Aperture | December 15, 2025



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What started with the notion of lending a helping hand, charitable work is no longer at the core of philanthropy in today’s world. Tax evasion and personal political gains have tainted the hands of the world’s wealthiest givers, causing a huge wealth gap that only seems to be growing, creating an ever-expanding rift between social classes. But what exactly happened? How did we turn that amazing feeling you get giving money away to charity into a corrupt scheme for billionaires and large corporations?

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  1. @namedrik5876

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    Remember; the increasing wealth gap between the rich and poor is only a result of the consolidation by the high society as there has been nothing to seriously shake up the status quo

  2. @MsArrika

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    Glad the issue is being discussed but i liked Hasan Minajs version better. Kinda straight up plagiarized his episode of the patriot act, but it seems you completely removed l satire and charisma. 😐

  5. @shakazulufamily1054

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    This is exactly how George Soros created Black Lives Matter and they raised over $90 million, and none of it got to the BLM locations or the people, and now they are bankrupt. This is the same soup warmed all over.

  10. @andrewfischer1389

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    Excellent video in regard to exposing the abuse of modern Philanthropy but this just outlines the problem with Capitalism, if Philanthropy isn't going to decrease the wealth gap because of the obvious greed of the rich then how can anyone trust them to actually be Philanthropists? All this tells me is that Capitalism has failed, and the concept of the ultra-wealthy needs to be done away with.

  16. @lr8786

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    I donated to Travis doodles and my church. Both are faith based organizations. My church has an outreach program that's faith based to help addicts in recovery all over the world. I don't donate a lot cause I'm single mom working but it makes me feel better to know I could be helping someone who needs it.

  18. @bilbobaggins7490

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    It's the wealthy who need their souls saved. Even most charities do very little for the poor. Because Billionaire CEOS use their own charities to steal from those they claim to help. They may say that your purchase helped pay for 10 meals but a volunteer told me that they use old non perishables donated to churches and food pantries.
    I always give directly to the homeless. In fact many second hand stores sell your stuff and give mere pennies to those they claim to help. One homeless program was taking donations from their shelter and selling them at their restore, instead of handing them out to homeless directly.
    A lady I know went shopping at a restore and saw her clothes hanging on the rack with price tags. Nobody who was homeless got her donation.
    The CEO of the charity was making almost a million dollars a year too.
    The poorest among us, including the prostitutes and drug addicts will enter the kingdom of Heaven before any of the rich will. Jesus said, " It is easier for a camel to enter through an eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

  21. @Sir_Uncle_Ned

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    No wonder every time I have reached out to a philanthropist I have been ignored. They don't care about helping people, they just want to avoid paying their fair share.

  23. @self-inflictedphilosophy

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    Ask yourself: would you rather be a typical hero who earns power and hoards it; or a prestigious hero who earns power and expiates it?

    Put in another light: would you rather be the hero hunter who hoards all the meat while the rest of the tribe dies, or the prestigious hero hunter who keeps the choicest meat for his effort but then shares the rest with the tribe so it doesn't starve?

    Then ask yourself: in which way is my conscience clearer?

  24. @uglystupidloser

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    i think you forget that power is a two way street. its easy to say that they are abusing their power, but an entire society supports that status quo. are we going to reduce fossil fuel usage and stop buying new clothes?

    are we going to go back to school to try yo change careers into something that we would like to believe in and fight for?

    we take what is useful. and power has allowed us to get to the roman empire dominating europe, to the british empire dominating the seas, and the usa dominating the world through its politics/ economics/ military.

    power got us this far, and, as animals, we follow. we traded independence and insecurity for technology and stability.

    idk what im talking about. maybe we shouldnt look for philanthropy from the top. because its not going to happen.

    we are the cattle in their pens.

  25. @WatchSchoolDays

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    No one becomes a billionaire while in good conscience, no one of them really gives a shit about the people, they only care about altering the public opinion so they won't get in their ways of amassing more and more wealth. People need to stop falling for the obvious mirage of donations as they are nothing but a plain facade to make you think they care (as well as avoiding paying tax).

    Don't be naive

  26. @4shotpastas

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    I'm not defending his sketchy actions. But when he said he'd donate money to solve world hunger, it was because someone claimed that elon musk could solve world hunger with 1% of his wealth, or something like that.

  27. @bustalks

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    If you want to get rich, focus on creating value to the market, then the money itself will flow in, Value itself is the symbol of money you are making, a fellow creator,..,.,.,.

  29. @ayyan7063

    December 15, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    Great video as usual, I'm waiting for your next video bro!! It would be great if you could upload your videos on a daily basis although I can understand it is difficult to produce great content on a daily basis!! I would appreciate it if you could try l to upload!

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