Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.
While it’s true that there are degrees of awfulness amongst the billionaires, there is no philanthropy sufficient to redeem the extraction and abuse necessary to become one of them. Some are worse, but none are better.
Yeah I agree and wasn’t trying to make the guy a saint or anything, just trying to add some nuance to the discussion from the impact he had on my life specifically. Although that said, I would probably put Ted on the ‘less evil’ end of the bell curve of billionaires.
Dude your good. People are complicated. Legacies are messy. There’s nuance. Its easy to make a blanket statement that “all billionaires are evil”
Its more difficult to reflect and analyze a person or situation and think for yourself and find good, or bad, in something. Don’t apologize and don’t let Lemmy’s hard line lazy ass one liners make you second guess that.
If a time travelers footsteps on a butterfly in the Jurassic can change the sentient race in the future, I figure that a billionaire absent mindedly funding a water well can accidentally bring the next utopia. I’m not holding my breath, but good things tend to ripple outwards.
While it’s true that there are degrees of awfulness amongst the billionaires, there is no philanthropy sufficient to redeem the extraction and abuse necessary to become one of them. Some are worse, but none are better.
Yeah I agree and wasn’t trying to make the guy a saint or anything, just trying to add some nuance to the discussion from the impact he had on my life specifically. Although that said, I would probably put Ted on the ‘less evil’ end of the bell curve of billionaires.
Dude your good. People are complicated. Legacies are messy. There’s nuance. Its easy to make a blanket statement that “all billionaires are evil”
Its more difficult to reflect and analyze a person or situation and think for yourself and find good, or bad, in something. Don’t apologize and don’t let Lemmy’s hard line lazy ass one liners make you second guess that.
If a time travelers footsteps on a butterfly in the Jurassic can change the sentient race in the future, I figure that a billionaire absent mindedly funding a water well can accidentally bring the next utopia. I’m not holding my breath, but good things tend to ripple outwards.
For sure, I don’t disagree with any of what you said.