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MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Re: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Post by seydor »

dymk wrote: post #330
seydor wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is philanthropy porn. He is not the philanthropist because he doesnt haev the money in the first place, he is using other people's money to perform charity on camera. I 'm not very religious but it is a tale as old as humans. The christian gospels called out this hypocricy for a reason: > Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the…

What you’re saying is indistinguishable from “I’m jealous people don’t give me credit the same way they give him credit”

you will find similar quotes in other religious. Most of them disapprove of what he is doing. I m assuming by extension that most people (religious or not) disapprove status-seeking philanthropy.

I dont think i 'm jealous because i would never do something similar, i just find it unethical

Re: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Post by chimen »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #287
chimen wrote: post #80

It's not altruism if it's your source of income. Sorry but I don't buy this bs. He's doing it to generate income, that's all. Altruism is "unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others" but we have quite the opposite here - a selfish way of milking poor people for emotions in order to generate income. Real altruism is hard and done only by a few. Literally EVERY man/woman/child on this planet will say yes…

Top comment is exactly what I expected it to be. Here we have some dude who is earning money by helping people - yet for some reason this is one of the biggest sins he can do in eyes of a lot of people. Why? Just because he can't help everyone? This is so weird take on the matter. What are you doing to help people? Are you taking credit for that work? And if not would you not be able to help more people if you had so…

No, it's not a sin. Just don't call it altruism or philanthropy because it's an insult to others who are really doing it without selfish reasons or profits.

Btw he is not "earning money by helping people", he is "helping" people to earn money.

Re: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Post by chimen »

websap wrote: post #280
chimen wrote: post #80

It's not altruism if it's your source of income. Sorry but I don't buy this bs. He's doing it to generate income, that's all. Altruism is "unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others" but we have quite the opposite here - a selfish way of milking poor people for emotions in order to generate income. Real altruism is hard and done only by a few. Literally EVERY man/woman/child on this planet will say yes…

Yikes! What a cynical take and I wonder if you bring this degree of skepticism to the world. From the article: > The end product was an eight-minute video called “1,000 Blind People See for the First Time.” This is a huge quality of life improvement for 1000 people directly, and imagine the secondary effects - they qualify for jobs which they didn't, they can contribute money to their families, their families are abl…

Let's not leave aside the altruism because that the main beef I have with this comment.

Re: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Post by seydor »

andelink wrote: post #262
seydor wrote: post #223

A lot of people seem to agree that "the end justifies the means" with his charitable acts. That's what rubs people off imo. Imagine a porn star making vids to give to charity. Would people give equal praise to her? This kind of attention-seeking is considered too easy, and too easy is usually not considered ethical. I wonder how many will imitate his deeds?

> Imagine a porn star making vids to give to charity. Would people give equal praise to her? The only difference is the audience viewers don’t see the direct benefit of the charitable acts/contributions. I don’t see what the point of this comment/comparison is.

i meant "to give the profits to charity"

Re: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Post by chimen »

abenga wrote: post #320
chimen wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you give me millions of dollars for it? I could clean tons of trash yes, or fund a lot of cataract surgeries. I can found hundreds of thousands if by the end of the year I'm left with more money than I started. Awesome idea.

Ifs and buts, my friend. Only thing we know for sure is you haven't. And MrBeast has.

Absolutely, not taking away from his marketing skills.

Re: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Post by shp0ngle »

I hate the rapid-cut way his video are done.

Once I tried to watch some of his videos, and I thought it's just a trailer to the "actual video", but then no actual video came, it's just all like that

But it's fine I guess. People watched crappy reality shows in 2000s, now we have this stuff.

Re: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Post by [deleted] »

jjallen wrote: post #123
vkou wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I find it interesting that people are upset that this, for lack of a better term, philanthropy achieved by MrBeast, while yes, its for the likes, the YouTube popularity, its a cottage industry of "feel good" that he's producing, is somehow bad? It depends on how it's done. It's one thing to be broadcasting what is essentially, poverty porn, where you, the hero of the world, come in to paradrop money on the problem.…

How would he be able to do any charity if not for YouTube and broadcasting it? He’s effectively transferring dollars from large advertisers to poor Americans. Very unlikely he would be doing this at all if not for YouTube.

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Re: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Post by poulpy123 »

walthamstow wrote: post #335
LelouBil wrote: post #329

In semi-related news, a french twitch streamer, "Zerator", just learned that he will become "Knight of the National Order of Merit" which is an honorific title that "rewards distinguished merits acquired either in a public, civil or military function, or in the exercise of a private activity during at least 10 years." He is known for organizing a caritative event each year in France with a lot of french twitch stream…

Nice! How does that award rank in the French honours system? I am only familiar with the Legion D'Honeur (almost certainly spelt incorrectly)

it's just under the legion d'honneur, but to be fair these awards have not much meaning these days

Re: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

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Post by 2-718-281-828 »

chimen wrote: post #80

It's not altruism if it's your source of income. Sorry but I don't buy this bs. He's doing it to generate income, that's all. Altruism is "unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others" but we have quite the opposite here - a selfish way of milking poor people for emotions in order to generate income. Real altruism is hard and done only by a few. Literally EVERY man/woman/child on this planet will say yes…

might technically still be considered "altruism" - after all there is no official definition. but your reasoning holds. i would also question whether his business deserves to be called altruistic given that he gets rich by it. he wouldn't be flying first class without his altruistic deeds.
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