It is a wonderful program. I wish more billionaires were trying to leave a legacy where their name stands for something more admirable. Will anyone know who Zuckerberg is in 100 years? Probably not.
About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
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#22She's able to do all this and still live comfortably and live her dreams. I wonder why more wealthy don't do things like this. It seems most just write a check to Charity X for the tax break and the ego boost. The things Dolly does seem to lend themselves to legacy, and what could a rich man/woman want more than their name immortalized in a social program that helps people.
A big motivation was that her father was illiterate. We live in Tennessee and this program is amazing. Dolly Parton is great to Tennessee and her reputation here is stellar.
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#23She's able to do all this and still live comfortably and live her dreams. I wonder why more wealthy don't do things like this. It seems most just write a check to Charity X for the tax break and the ego boost. The things Dolly does seem to lend themselves to legacy, and what could a rich man/woman want more than their name immortalized in a social program that helps people.
If you find the right organization that uses the funds effectively, what's with donating your wealth as opposed to creating your own charitable organization? Also, I'm sure the tax deduction for donations is exploited when the receiving organization is non-profit in name only, but if the receiving organization really is an effective charity, what's wrong with the donor getting a tax break? Or is the claim not that on…
Are there no profit charity organization where everyone is a volunteer and no one draws a salary?
Lots of these orgs often seem like they exist to maintain the organization than benefit their cause.
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#24It is a wonderful program. I wish more billionaires were trying to leave a legacy where their name stands for something more admirable. Will anyone know who Zuckerberg is in 100 years? Probably not.
Will anyone know who one of the most influential founders in technology in history is in 100 years? I think yes…
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#25She's able to do all this and still live comfortably and live her dreams. I wonder why more wealthy don't do things like this. It seems most just write a check to Charity X for the tax break and the ego boost. The things Dolly does seem to lend themselves to legacy, and what could a rich man/woman want more than their name immortalized in a social program that helps people.
Good point. Even from a purely selfish perspective, I would think that being universally loved would have more utility than a few more millions in the bank.
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#26She's able to do all this and still live comfortably and live her dreams. I wonder why more wealthy don't do things like this. It seems most just write a check to Charity X for the tax break and the ego boost. The things Dolly does seem to lend themselves to legacy, and what could a rich man/woman want more than their name immortalized in a social program that helps people.
“I wonder why more wealthy don't do things…”
I wonder why so many people want the wealthy to do more things to make the world a better place when the United States has a GDP of $23 trillion dollars.
Everyone wants to pay little taxes, have a cheap gallon of gas, and tax the rich to solve our problems, while kicking the can as far down the road as possible.
How many problems could have been solved with $32 trillion
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikepatton/2023/04/25/the-natio...
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#27It is a wonderful program. I wish more billionaires were trying to leave a legacy where their name stands for something more admirable. Will anyone know who Zuckerberg is in 100 years? Probably not.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has apparently given out $2 billion in grants. I haven't really heard anything about any of its projects, while Parton's library project sounds very effective. It did say on Wikipedia though that the Zucc's initiative issued a grant to matplotlib, so that's nice.
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#28She's able to do all this and still live comfortably and live her dreams. I wonder why more wealthy don't do things like this. It seems most just write a check to Charity X for the tax break and the ego boost. The things Dolly does seem to lend themselves to legacy, and what could a rich man/woman want more than their name immortalized in a social program that helps people.
“I wonder why more wealthy don't do things…” I wonder why so many people want the wealthy to do more things to make the world a better place when the United States has a GDP of $23 trillion dollars. Everyone wants to pay little taxes, have a cheap gallon of gas, and tax the rich to solve our problems, while kicking the can as far down the road as possible. How many problems could have been solved with $32 trillion ht…
What do you think why the rich are so rich? How much of the tax money lands in their pockets because they don't pay their employees good enough?
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#29She's able to do all this and still live comfortably and live her dreams. I wonder why more wealthy don't do things like this. It seems most just write a check to Charity X for the tax break and the ego boost. The things Dolly does seem to lend themselves to legacy, and what could a rich man/woman want more than their name immortalized in a social program that helps people.
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#30It is a wonderful program. I wish more billionaires were trying to leave a legacy where their name stands for something more admirable. Will anyone know who Zuckerberg is in 100 years? Probably not.
Will anyone know who one of the most influential founders in technology in history is in 100 years? I think yes…
This isn't necessarily an exact comparison, but looking at the list of 1934 robber barons on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist)
I only recognized a three of them: J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Three more I recognized universities named after them: James Duke (Duke University), Andrew Mellon (Carnegie Mellon University), Cornelius Vanderbilt (Vanderbilt University).
To the degree that I have a positive opinion of Rockefeller and Carnegie, it's because of their philanthropy rather than their industrialism or politics.