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Mr. Beast seems like kind of an awesome person

Doomflower · 2023-11-08T11:46:11-05:00

Famous People - Mr. Beast seems like kind of an awesome person From what I know he's somehow got access to... (18 replies).

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From what I know he's somehow got access to insane amounts of money and uses it to do things like provide clean drinking water to people who can't access it, clean dirty beaches, help people who are blind recover their sight... it's like, what? Who just does that?

I have never looked into how he makes the money but I assume it's related to his exploits and each big one helps him make even bigger impacts.

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BlueVeins · 26-30

He seems chill to me. I especially like that he doesn't talk about philanthropy as a substitute for government action, and he's called out the fact that some of the work he does should be within the purview of the State.

Team Trees is kinda ineffective imo, but even then it still does some good so I can hardly complain.

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

Apparently the Kenyan commentators are unhappy over his building wells calling it a white saviour complex. One lady who has been building wells for 15 years hopes that Mr Beast will fund infrastructure to maintain the wells.

Matt85 · 36-40, M

@Longpatrol How can someone contravene the access to clean water? That is just silly.

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BohoBabe · M

@Longpatrol

Apparently the Kenyan commentators are unhappy over his building wells calling it a white saviour complex.

They're just racists, embarrassed that a white person is helping black people in a way that they refuse to.

BohoBabe · M

I've never seen his videos, but I like what he does. A lot of people criticize him for doing charity because it reestablishes the propaganda that systemic problems are fixed with charity, but he has spoken about systemic solutions. After he cured a bunch of blind people, he said that the government should provide this service for free. And his popular videos call attention to these problems, which most people otherwise wouldn't know about. So yeah, I'd say he's a net positive.

Viper · M

He makes money via YouTube videos and now the extra businesses that he has created.

From what I gather, he has a public image that he likes to keep squeaky clean, but he's also a workaholic and perfectionist and can seriously go off on people when things keep going wrong or not to the standards he believes they should be at.

Other than being too hard on himself and others, he seems like a great guy, but is that really him? Or just the public image he wants to display?

I like to think he's a very nice, reasonable, perfectionist lol

Doomflower · 41-45, M

@Viper probably a bit of everything.

Ynotisay · M

Read about that guy the other day. Seems his efforts are being seen as "charity porn" by many. Now if he wasn't getting paid tens of millions via You Tube it might have a different smell. I read he's seeing between $3 and $5M a month. If anything it highlights the fact that charities are money-generating efforts. Non-profit doesn't mean no profit. Not even close. But then you have to ask if the 'good' being done justifies the money going in to pockets.

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Ynotisay · M

@Doomflower I think it comes to the end justifying the means. In this case I think it does But the reality is that this guy didn't start out with a charitable component. That wasn't what he was about. It evolved in to that. He was about views for money with different ways to get there. It appears that these kind of charitable efforts increase views which means more money. And sponsors like attaching themselves to charitable endeavors for the perception as well as the write off. He's taking a lot of the money from this arm of what he does, which is under a non-profit designation, and then turning it back in to charitable efforts with the corresponding cost to film them. So it runs like most charities. They're money making endeavors and lot of people don't know that if you give a charity a dollar there's no minimum on what needs to go the cause. It could be a nickel with 95 cents going to salaries and marketing to try and get more money.
In this case, I think water wells is a great use of that money. But my understanding, which could be wrong, is that the upkeep of those wells isn't in place. And that's a big part of it. My point was is that altruism isn't usually as cut and dry as just doing 'good.' It's how capitalistic societies work.

Doomflower · 41-45, M

@Ynotisay yeah, that's kind of what I assumed. I remember him setting up crazy things like "we filled an entire swimming pool with squishmallows!" Kind of videos.

I can see how setting up the maintenence of the wells is necessary. And probably complex. Ugh. Now I am all blah.

It is my understanding that the Nigerian government is extremely corrupt to an almost comical degree (says the American) and resources are not well managed so even if installing maintenance and managing the ongoing upkeep were simple, the government as it exists is just not functionally capable of accomplishing the task.

Ynotisay · M

@Doomflower You're so right about the corruption there. And it's not unique to them. And there probably is some truth to the backlash on this because corrupt governments don't like being called out for how ineffective they are when it comes to serving people. Best case scenario would be a 'thank you' and "we'll take it from here." But I'm not sure that'll happen. So then the easiest condemnation about him would be he used those people and their needs for views and then walked away. Even if the goal was pure it doesn't mean the outcome will be.

SatyrService · M

do a deep search
not just google

I found disturbing things

LookingForTheSummer · 36-40, M

@SatyrService Enlighten us?

Matt85 · 36-40, M

is that the guy who dug 100 wells in africa? that guy is up there with keanu.

Doomflower · 41-45, M

@Matt85 oh yeah Keanu is also one of my favorite people.

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

They're all PR stunts, actually take 20 minutes to watch one of his videos and you should quickly notice how sleazy he is with his money. He treats people around him like play pieces.

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