tst123@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoJeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez pledge $100 million for Maui wildfire reliefwww.msn.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down111
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkJeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez pledge $100 million for Maui wildfire reliefwww.msn.comtst123@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squarezephyrvs@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·2 years agoBillionaires also pledged to fund rebuilding Notre Dame in France and no one paid anything. Almost no one actually paid and it seems the press doesn’t care to see if anything has been paid since 2019: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-fire-update-big-donors-delay-fulfilling-pledges-to-rebuild-notre-dame/ Pledges are PR, nothing more.
Billionaires also pledged to fund rebuilding Notre Dame in France and no one paid anything. Almost no one actually paid and it seems the press doesn’t care to see if anything has been paid since 2019: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-fire-update-big-donors-delay-fulfilling-pledges-to-rebuild-notre-dame/
Pledges are PR, nothing more.