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Dec 13, 2023Liked by S Peter Davis

I think on an individual level Jimmy is doing a good thing when he fixes a bunch of peoples eyesight or digs wells and gives fresh water to people. I think his existence is symptomatic of a bigger problem. For him to be able to get views by buying people basic human rights, there needs to exist a system that is denying them those rights.

His net worth is closer to you or I than Jeff Bezos, so my question is that if he can do so much with so little, what the FUCK are all the other rich people doing? I think what I find off putting about Mr Beast is not actually his fault. Humanity has so much wealth and resources at our disposal that many of the worlds issues could be either solved or greatly improved. Every time I see his stupid gaping face I am reminded of what we could do if we weren't so entirely selfish or rock fuck stupid. For him to pay to cure blindness in a thousand people, there needed t be a thousand people that could have easily been afforded the surgery by society and weren't.

So at an an individual level, it's good that he is doing what he's doing because thousands people can see or drink without shitting themselves to death. Systemically, that he's allowed to to exist is bullshit.

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i wish i had a better explanation for why i can’t compute Mr. Beast = good, but i fundamentally just look into his eyes and see absolutely no soul... i’m not even religious there’s just something... uncanny and bizarre

if i found out tomorrow he was a benevolent alien who had studied earth for centuries trying to figure out how to get humans to accept help from ETs and this was the most palatable method he discovered, it would explain a lot

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The number of people who no longer have actual shit floating in their drinking water that are criticizing the dude’s intentions = zero

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