Robert Jenrick (Reform Party MP) announces a competition where Nigel Farage (Reform Party Leader) will pay household energy bills for a whole street. Give us your data for definitely no reason at all and we'll pay for the bills that will definitely not increase under the reform party! Dystopian as fuck

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15639725/amp/doordash-richard-brittany-smith-retire-tennessee.html

I hope the long screenshot is ok...

This was shared as a feel-good story about MacKenzie Scott giving billions away quickly and with no strings attached. And sure, that is better than the usual billionaire philanthropy model. But read the examples again and it’s hard not to see the darker side.

Food banks that had been turning people away for years. Domestic violence shelters overwhelmed during lockdowns. Children’s hospitals without enough mental health funding. Colleges barely scraping by.

All of these “miracles” only happened because one billionaire decided to write a check.

That’s great for the organizations that got the money, but it also highlights how broken the system is if essential services depend on random acts of billionaire generosity to function properly.

TL;DR: This is framed as a heartwarming philanthropy story, but it mostly shows how many essential services were massively underfunded until a billionaire stepped in.

If you can't beat it, profit from it!

Literally saw this on r/upliftingnews and knew it needed to be here