I'm fully expecting it'll become a warehouse for bourgeois fail children and a generally disfunctional grift, just like any charity under this capitalist hellscape that gets big enough to need several levels of administration
It's probably not a scam, he's already changed the company purpose from "maximise shareholder value" to some kind of vapid "save the planet" statement, which you can do but almost never happens.
I think he's mostly serious in the "hippy artisan gets too much money" way you see sometimes. But the charities are absolutely going to provide permanent employment for every third rate descendent he has for the next 60 years.
It’s certainly something. Curious to see how this actually works in practice. I imagine not much differently than when other billionaires do their whole pHiLaNtHrOpy shtick but idk
we're going to get a "billionaire CEO accidently creates socialism" like the kim stanley robinson Mars books aren't we?
I mean fuck it sure why not? It won’t happen on the large scale because it’s a non-materialist means of political progress but I can imagine a fistful of billionaires doing the tag-along thing of embracing socialism with their ill gotten wealth
there have been some wealthy, class traitor leftists (engels for one) but has there ever been the historical equivilant of a billionaire class traitor? seems like the journey there just filters out anyone not a sociopathic ghoul. george lucas maybe? he's telling everyone to go read parenti which is based but he basically won the lottery. i wonder if a billionaire went rouge how long he would be allowed to live.
“Won’t someone think of the environment!!” I scream as I run a billion dollar company that uses metric fucktons of oil to ship our goods
Should've made it a co-op with a climate change charter that requires a 90% vote to change.
Stupid billy nares
