Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Everyone Is Missing The Point About @MrBeast" video.

Exactly, and if that distinction isn't directly pointed out, then many people will likely walk away with the assumption that the system isn't all bad because benevolent content kings will randomly choose 1 out of 10,000 people to cure their blindness when we should rightfully and morally do it for all 10,000. It even makes sense financially when you consider you're adding 1.5 million people to the workforce.
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@welcome2wyzard Comparing Mr. Beast's philanthropic Capitalist business model (that has objectively made him unimaginably rich) to someone like a UNICEF volunteer digging a well in Africa is such a gross misunderstanding of the situation that I don't even know where to begin in pointing out all the logical fallacies.
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Thank you for articulating this so clearly. This was my exact same take and my feelings of Mr. Beast in general, but say anything like this and people will jump at you (even some leftists) just for looking past the surface & analyzing the cold hard reality of why our economy and culture are failing so miserably to better peoples lives. Mr. Beast is absolutely a factor in our culture & it's not always good. Sorry not sorry, but we can't just turn our brains off anytime we're talking about charity (and Mr. Beast's philanthropic Capitalist business model barely even qualifies as charity the majority of the time if you ask me, otherwise he wouldn't be the most successful content creator on the internet doing videos where he stays in $1,000,000 hotels per night & calling it content).
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@moodycxnt Does Mr. Beast really even have the right to call it "philanthropy" when it's objectively being done to make more money than it costs for the surgeries? At that point, you're just talking about a profit margin and subtracting the costs from the overall expenses & millions of dollars he receives for his content. I honestly don't understand why people are just ignoring this fact. Mr. Beast is one of the highest paid people in entertainment and he's objectively not doing this out of the kindness of his own heart, he's worth somewhere between $100 million and a $1 billion for a reason.
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@Im.Smaher You could start with how one capitalizes and highly monetizes the work, while the other doesn't and people don't even know who the UNICEF volunteer is, despite the tireless work they do. Or you could start with how one makes 100s of millions of dollars from their "philanthropy", while the other makes nothing and has their bare expenses provided by the volunteer organization (a lot of the time they end up having to use their own money).
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@Im.Smaher They do matter. What Mr. Beast does is effectively charity donations at the end of the day. Heightening Youtube content that ultimately makes him millions of dollars in profit (i.e. a JOB, a very very good job) to the same level of UNICEF workers that end up spending their own money just to do the actual work without pay in 3rd world countries without even clean drinking water - there's just something gross and infuriating about that comparison.
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@Im.Smaher "There’s nothing wrong with profiting off of helping people" - I'm gonna skip all the bullshit and just point out this argument from you is the core of our disagreement. In practice I can concede that it can be good and better than nothing, but from a principled point of view and in terms of society's ability to progress towards a system where things like child poverty and curable blindness are actually remedied by a functioning system, I don't believe it's a step in the right direction, but instead more of a diversion from the real solutions more than anything else. It's fine if you disagree, I'm not going to call you stupid like you have done towards me, but I just recommend you look past your own biases and ask yourself if billionaire funded charity and philanthropy (i.e. the status quo) has actually gotten us any closer to a world or American society where real world problems have actually been solved - child poverty, blindness, climate change, etc. Imo, billionaire funded charity is a bandaid and a lot of the time positive PR for a broken system that can and should be fixed by the people at the top with all the wealth and power to do something about it - that is likely the core of where we differ in our opinions.
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@Im.Smaher In this instance it does have to do with the government, culture and society as a whole. There's a reason most of us (including myself) have never talked seriously about the impact Mr. Beast has on society until this very video. He decided to dip his toe in this lake of sludge that is the American healthcare system and it's only fair to have a serious discussion about the nuances of this topic whether it directly pertains to Mr. Beast or not. However, I take your point and will also note that my criticism leans less on Mr. Beast specifically and more on all billionaires and the ultra wealthy - Mr. Beast just happens to fall in that category because he's literally the most influential person on Youtube and maybe even the internet entirely. Another thing to note is that the American government is effectively functioning as an oligarchy in the year 2023, so yes, billionaires & the wealthy absolutely pertain to the health of the current system - they both have the utmost power and wealth to lobby the government for changes in policies, regulations and taxes, however, the reason they settle for donating to charity and not the former is that real change of the economy and system would result in an actual loss of their wealth and not just a small percentage as what happens with charity donations. Imo, this is a primary reason the system is broken and will remain broken for the foreseeable future. The existence of billionaires and maybe even 100 millionaires is a complete failure of the system.
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@coreyaruecker Can you even call it charity when you're netting more profit than loss from it? Just sounds like a regular profit margin of a business. Ya'll act like Mr. Beast runs a nonprofit organization or something, but in reality he's literally the most successful content creator on the internet worth 100s of millions.
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@meidyot1672 I can appreciate it while also calling it like it is at the same time. How about you? Should we just turn our brains off and pretend like he's not making 100s of millions of dollars off his content
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@meidyot1672 True, and that's obviously much better than leaving these blind people to never get treatment ever, but we should also acknowledge that his existence at all is a giant failure of the system. Maybe I'm just biased and cynical, but I don't see him as a hero despite his video having noble intent, I just see him as a symptom of a failing society & a bandaid on a festering wound. I don't blame anyone for their differing views on this, but I just can't see it any other way. His video just enrages me to the injustice of the system and the fact that we need to rely on unimaginatively successful benevolent content kings making feel-good videos for 1000 people to ever be able to see again.
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@Suny-Halo If they have lots of money and a megaphone and they're still speaking out against the system, that means they are fighting the system. Danny Devito is in the top percentile tax bracket with 100s of millions in net worth, but he still backed Bernie Sanders in the Dem primary even knowing it would likely diminish his wealth in the long run. That's what it means for wealthy people to use their position to fight against the system, all they have to do is endorse and back the right policies that would bring about real change (& the majority don't even do that), not whatever the hell you're talking about. If you're talking about charity, then they also do that too, so I have no idea what you're saying - are you just making a dumb trope about they should all "give away their money" cause that's stupid. Socialism (not even socialism, but democratic socialism or social democracy) is not just some poverty cult that thinks everyone should be poor. You have serious misunderstandings of real socialists if you actually think that.
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