That’s clearly not what I meant by privileged, but if that makes you feel better about yourself that you “know more and tried harder”, then go ahead, I can’t stop you.
This has nothing to do with who owes what. Honestly, where are you in this argument? You talk about systemic failure and neglect admitting that it’s the companies responsible for systemic choosing who fails. This failure comes from prejudice. Like it or not, it’s real, it keeps people from advancing, and it’s rampant. It’s not something in the minority, it is very common, especially in the job markets where the people in the minority that I just mentioned in the last post are able to seek jobs. Adding to that list: ex-convicts, geriatrics, “thuggish looking people” (ranging from anyone with tattoos to black people with natural hair, e.g. dreads)
When I say you lack compassion, I’m saying it because you’re refusing to acknowledge that these minority groups are held in any way of advancing except by their own means: “it’s their own fault”. Prejudice is real, and you not being part of those classes of people make you privileged.
None of this has anything to do with the topic at hand, which I’ll remind everyone is that the richest man in the world funneled an amount of money that he makes in less than an hour into his own charity, which will net him a profit in the end, for the sake of advancing his brand. Is it a lot of money? Yes. Will it help lots of people? Yes. Could he have donated money 5x that and not even have noticed? Yes. Could a lot more people have been helped? Yes.
Does he owe it to anyone? Well, let’s see. His company’s presence in Seattle skyrocketed the number of homeless people and shut down countless businesses due to the increase in cost of living. His company uses American roads and rails that taxpayers paid for, not him. His workers have to be educated, which is supported by taxpayers, again something he doesn’t do. I could go on, but I’ll leave it at “maybe not, but it sure wouldn’t hurt”. The history of the world has looked favorably on and civilizations definitely haven’t fallen due to substantially large and ever increasing gaps in classes of people...oh wait...