Politics

How the Rich Avoid Taxes and Gaslight Us When They Donate Billions to Charity

And why we stupidly thank them for it when they do

J.J. Pryor
The Apeiron Blog
Published in
10 min readJun 24, 2021

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Jeff Bezos laughing while sitting in a leather chair
Credit: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

MacKenzie Scott has now donated 8 billion dollars of her personal wealth to charities. While that act is noble in itself, her estimated wealth increased $23 billion during the same period.

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