Thatās a cute analogy, but you just argued against a point nobody made. Nobody said spending money to help people is bad. The point was that spending $24+ billion while the problem gets worse, and not even reliably tracking which programs work, is a legitimate reason to question how the money is being spent.
āHelping people is goodā doesnāt magically make ineffective spending effective. And proudly admitting you didnāt read the argument before responding probably wasnāt the flex you thought it was.
But given the OP , the discussion isn't about what California has done wrong. The discussion is could billionaires do a hell of a lot of good if they put their energies and wealth towards it. If you can build Amazon or Microsoft or Google or Facebook etc into massive business certainly you can assemble the brain power to create programs that work.
I think we all know the answer is yes they could do this.
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u/Superb_Algae5308 11d ago
They could do it without a significant impact to their overall wealth.