In a recent appearance on the Katie Miller Podcast, Billionaire Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called charity a “net negative on the world.”

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        Not nearly as many lives saved from one set of organs as lives destroyed to become a billionaire.

        Like not even close.

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          This is still one way they can give back. Don’t worry, though, if they’re donating their organs to help a few people, it means they’re dead, and we can use their estate to help a whole lot more!

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        Well, not “countless.” Sociopathic Oligarchs are a finite resource, but we should exploit that finite resource as ruthlessly as they would.

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        There’s only so many billionaires, with so many organs, a lot of those organs will be trash, so you could definitely count how many lives could be saved.

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          Those organs have had the best treatment, good food, expert medical care, some have even been infused with the blood of healthy young athletes. Sure, a few have stressed their organs with cocaine, cigars, and expensive scotch, but most will be well-preserved.

          I say go for it.

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            Oh I’m not saying it’s not a worthy plan, it’s just a lot of them are ancient, there’s only so much you can do with an 80 year old liver, regardless of how many total blood replacements the corpse has had…

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      I wish people would think about the comments they’re posting online as independent thoughts.

      “Taxes do better good than charties can with money” is a reasonable opinion and one I could agree with.

      “The billionaire is right about charities hurting people more than they help” is a stance that sounds crazy on it’s own given what good charities do in the world.

      Tying them together doesn’t make the second one better just because the first one might be true. Imagine saying “charities that spend 90% of the money they make trying to cure cancer or provide food and shelter to kids or provide vaccines to poor locations are bad organizations for society.” You’d get boo’ed by your good friends.

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      You think they’re bad now? Wait until they start evolving into TRILLIONAIRES. Then they’ll really get squirrelly.

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    There are many charities that provide life-saving medical care to children. Imagine telling a child that them being alive is a net negative on the world. This comment isn’t “contrarian,” it’s a glimpse of how utterly evil this person truly is.

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      I do believe that charities needing to exist in the first place is a negative thing.

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    Completely missing the best excuse that Sociopathic Oligarchs have: the government shouldn’t be funding social safety nets, that’s the jobs of charity.

    Do away with government safety nets AND charity, then the only path left for The Desperate is to remove the obstacle between themselves, and all the money in the world - The Sociopathic Oligarchs themselves.

    Add this loser to The List.