this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
86 points (63.5% liked)

Asklemmy

43940 readers
610 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 7) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] MJBrune@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Li Ka-shin is another good answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ka-shing who gained a bunch of money like Bill Gates and started his own foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ka_Shing_Foundation which works towards education reform, the foundation constantly builds and donates to universities to help them further the reach of impoverished students. Additionally, they support a lot of medical services and research to help impoverished areas of HK.

[โ€“] Terevos@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. Romans 3:12

You're right. There's no billionaire who has done good. But there's also no human who has done good either.

load more comments (3 replies)
[โ€“] rikudou@lemmings.world -1 points 1 year ago

How about no? Stop deepthroating billionaires, please.

[โ€“] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net -2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Elon Musk. Without him, electric cars wouldn't be the almost-mainstream thing they are today. We also would be a decade behind on space launch.

load more comments (10 replies)
[โ€“] gilokee@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

JK Rowling donated so much money that she's no longer a billionaire!

[โ€“] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Elon Musk

Popularized electric cars, funded the design for re-usable space rockets and gave people on the rural areas aswell as Ukrainian soldiers internet access.

The flood of downvotes now demonstrates how all this is ignored because people hate him nevertheless.

load more comments (15 replies)
load more comments
view more: โ€น prev next โ€บ