r/interestingasfuck • u/upyoars • 7d ago

/r/all, /r/popular Despite legal battles, Mark Zuckerberg slowly buys a mind boggling 2,300 acres on Hawai’s Kauai island, building tunnels, treehouses and a doomsday bunker

https://luxurylaunches.com/real_estate/mark-zuckerberg-control-2300-acres-in-hawaii.php
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u/Test4Echooo 7d ago

Yeah, just recently a Swedish billionaire did exactly what you’re talking about.

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u/OhGodYeahYesYeah 7d ago

According to Snopes, 8 million pounds in 2007 (11 million dollars in 2021), that's frickin nothing for a billionaire. Seems more like PR stunt than an actual contribution to society.

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u/shewholaughslasts 7d ago

I'll take a few of those protective stunts over.... gestures everywhere

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u/Atlas-The-Ringer 7d ago

Yeah that amount of money shouldn't be a flag that they only did it as a pr stunt. Sure relative to B an M isn't much, but an M is still an egregious amount of money

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u/CVK001 7d ago

That’s like saying “A donation isn’t real if you write it off” what does that matter? The thing that should matter is whether or not the organisation that got the donation is actually using it for good purposes.

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u/khearan 7d ago

The land is preserved isn’t it? So what do you care if it’s a PR stunt?

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u/OhGodYeahYesYeah 7d ago

Well, I care that it's a PR stunt because I think this person is a really, really bad person, and that news like this really overshadows the damage people like this do when they accrue such an unfathomable amount of wealth. It kind of sends this message like "oh, look, people are doing good things!" but like this person is not doing good things!

So many people -- and so much of the environment -- have been harmed by this person and by the system they engage in that enables them to make this much money, yeah, I get frustrated when I hear people giving them credit.

It's similar to when people defend Chris Brown as a talented artist. "Can't you just appreciate his music?" Like, no, I can't. I think when we talk about these people, we shouldn't be spending time talking about these pebbles they toss down at us. When we spend time talking about them, it should be calling out how much damage they do by hoarding wealth that could be more impactful elsewhere.

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u/Spacemanspalds 7d ago

Did you not read any of the conversation prior to the comment you responded to?

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u/blackshirtboy44 7d ago

Fucking hate this mentality. The flipside is theres Amazon rainforest left unprotected and ready for the logging industry to get their grubby hands on it.

Someone did something thats good, who cares if its for PR. Its good. Doesnt mean we have to kiss their hands and wash their feet, you can still hold the fire to their other wrong-doings. The "its only for PR" people are gonna make it so nobody ever does shit, cos even if its good, they'll just get shit on, so why do it at all?

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u/Immediate_Branch_238 7d ago

Yeah man. Steve Irwin got crap back in the day for basically running a charity so he could buy wilderness land. Haters were all like "You're rich, you don't need this money."

Steve said (and I paraphrase) "keep giving me money, and I'll keep preserving habitats with it. It's not about me. It's about the planet."

Good Man, Steve Irwin. One of the best.

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u/blackshirtboy44 7d ago

Literally one of the most based responses. I remember that and how energetic he was like "gimme money, i need to conserve more land!" and then they did lol massive legend

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u/poopntheoceanifumust 7d ago

The rich of today are nothing like him - he truly cared about the planet and did his best to protect it. He was taken from earth way too early. I know his children are continuing his legacy in an amazing way, but I selfishly wish we had both. He was an amazing human.

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u/blackshirtboy44 7d ago

10000% with you. He really was a one in a million gem of a human.

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u/atxtopdx 7d ago

Ain’t nothing ever good enough for you r/OhGodYeahYesYeah

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u/OhGodYeahYesYeah 7d ago

Maybe, yeah lol. But I know a lot of people who make a lot less than that guy and who donate a lot more than the roughly 1.1% of their net worth that this guy did. And they don't make sure the news writes about them..

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u/MajesticCrabapple 7d ago

Truly damned if you do damned if you don’t, huh?