Thoughts on Amazon [cont.]

[bill_schubert]

So what if you knew that a good sized portion of the profit from everything you bought went to charity?

I've long supported the ASPCA with my purchases using the Amazon Smile link.  It is a miniscule amount but the charity has received $10.5 million so there is strength in numbers.

And I've long realized that for every operating system I buy there will be a portion of the net profit going to world disease relief and all the other Gates Foundation work.

But now it is even more direct and understandable.  MacKenzie Scott owns 4% of Amazon and she tries without success to give that money away faster than it accrues.  She has people actively looking for organizations whose goals align with hers and who can leverage the money she gives them to move those mostly social goals forward.  She articulates it here.  She has leverage and amazing ideas of how to use it.

So 4% of the resulting profit of anything bought at Amazon goes to the places that need it most.  And that does not address anything that Bezos contributes between happy flights or what Amazon contributes as a company.

That's all.  We need more evil capitalist empires like Amazon.

Comments

[susandennis]

yes, this. mine goes to planned parenthood

[stainsteelrat.livejournal.com]

Kudos to MacKenzie Scott, I'm a big fan of spreading the wealth, or at least seriously taxing those who have so much of it.

[taz-39.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. The lovely ASPCA.
They who falsified videos of circus animal torture, and who must now use their donation money to pay my former employer millions of dollars because they chose to bribe a witness to lie in court, in addition to forging evidence.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aspca-pays-93-million-in-landmark-ringling-bros-and-barnum--bailey-circus-settlement-185046751.html

I'm not going to sit here and tell you not to donate to them, it is your money. But I did want to share why personally, I think they're a terrible, deceitful organization that spends an unfortunately small amount of it's profits on actual animals. There is plenty of animal abuse out there without having to fake stuff, or pay someone to lie about it, and any organization that would stoop to that is not getting one dollar from me. A local SPCA (which is different from the ASPCA) might be a more worthy recipient.

I'm sorry to soapbox and will avoid doing so for future posts.