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Fighting for industrial literacy. I write about the history of technology at @rootsofprogress. Part-time tech consultant to @OurWorldInData. Former tech founder

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    1. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 27 Mar 2020

      Jason Crawford Retweeted Peter Pham

      When someone evaluates a donation by what % of the donor's wealth it is, they're conveying that what they care most about is not how much *good* it does for others, but how much *pain* it caused the giver. That's their standard of morality.https://twitter.com/peterpham/status/1243658310345097216 …

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      Peter PhamVerified account @peterpham
      I don't understand why people have to dunk & complain. $25M is a tremendous amount of money. Let's be thankful for the donation. Some people donate time, some money, and some do nothing but troll & think that's helpful. It's not. pic.twitter.com/wdUqo3VDii
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    2. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 27 Mar 2020

      When Ayn Rand railed against altruism as the “morality of sacrifice”, *this* is what she was talking about. The complete inversion where benevolence is gone, you no longer care about benefit to the world, you just want to tear down the rich and successful.

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    3. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 28 Mar 2020

      Some followup after 3k+ likes and many many replies. First, “pain” was not the clearest word. Maybe substitute “how much effort it took” or “how difficult it was”.

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    4. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 28 Mar 2020

      The most thoughtful responses I got amount to: The effort required is irrelevant to the benefit conferred, but it *is* relevant to evaluating the generosity of the donor. (@RealtimeAI and @davidklaing were the most articulate at making this point, thank you.) I agree, but—

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    5. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 28 Mar 2020

      1. Someone's generosity has to be evaluated in the context of *all* their giving, which was flatly ignored here. Zuckerberg has already pledged to donate 99% of his wealth. And more importantly—

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    6. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 28 Mar 2020

      2. When someone offers a gift, the correct response is “thank you.” Not, “you could easily have given more!” The first is gratitude. The second is entitlement.

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    7. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 28 Mar 2020

      And that's the real crux of the issue, and the most common reply I got: the idea that Zuckerberg didn't earn his billions and doesn't deserve them, that he owes something to “society”, that he has a moral obligation to “give back”.

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    8. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 28 Mar 2020

      To the people who deeply believe this, even 99% of Zuck's wealth isn't enough. Nothing could ever enough. Even if he gave it all away, they'd still be upset with him for ever having touched it in the first place.

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    9. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 28 Mar 2020

      They're upset now that he, and other billionaires, even get to choose where their money goes! That's how deep the entitlement runs. And that's what's disingenuous about the “0.045% of his wealth” comment. It's not actually the point.

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      Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 28 Mar 2020

      I loathe the entitlement mentality. Zuck didn't steal his billions, nor did Gates, nor Bezos. And you don't have a right to them. So when they give a gift, evaluate their generosity however you want—but keep your mouth shut except to say “thank you”.

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        1. James Clark  📈 📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯‏ @mr_james_c 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @jasoncrawford

          The other element here that is usually forgotten: how much money could be usefully deployed and are you able to prevent perverse incentives (and/or corruption).

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        1. Matt Larsen‏ @MattDLarsen 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @jasoncrawford @JimPethokoukis

          Without begrudging their current generousity, I do wish that the public had gotten a greater share of the ROI from its subsidization of Bezos’s wealth via Amazon’s long sales tax holiday and Gates’s wealth via overgenerous patent protections

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        2. TomD_HD‏ @TomD_Santiago 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @jasoncrawford

          It used to be called 'income tax'. That thing that prevented government from going bust and also prevented individuals from becoming tens of millions of times wealthier than the average. Billionaires exist due to the tax system, not because they worked millions of times harder.

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        3. Chris Sandvick‏ @ChrisSandvick 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @TomD_Santiago @jasoncrawford

          Change "work" to created value and they absolutely did. A ditch digger who does back breaking work does not create values to the same degree as someone who impacts millions with their product or company. "Work", just by itself, leaves society scratching dirt with sticks.

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        1. Fred‏ @newplatonism 28 Mar 2020
          Replying to @jasoncrawford

          Have you watched "Schindler's List"? There is a scene at the end that I personally love. When everybody is cheering for him, he starts to cry and say why I kept what I kept while I could perhaps save one more person! BTW, donating 99% at end of your life means only rubbing heirs

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        1. Photo-John‏ @Photo_John 28 Mar 2020
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          Tax. The. Motherfucking. Rich.

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        1. RIP Aunt Polly  😢 🙏 🕊‏ @hawt_red 28 Mar 2020
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          And that's that about that!pic.twitter.com/CPL3bqW23t

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        1. Greg Camp  🌹‏ @GregCampNC 28 Mar 2020
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          If you insist on lying, you lose credibility.

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        2. zot‏ @zot3p 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @jasoncrawford

          They didn't steal it but can you tell me what makes them entitled to such enormous amounts where 25 million for them is 4 dollars for me. Are they 1000000 times more smart, visionary, hard working, self-sacrificing than me or you or others? Their wealth is not just a function +

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        3. zot‏ @zot3p 29 Mar 2020
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          of who they are so society has some entitlement or equivalently they are not solely entitled.

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