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Seth MacFarlane Donates $1 Million to Entertainment Community Fund to Support Film and Television Workers During Strikes (variety.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seth MacFarlane donated $1 million to The Entertainment Community Fund to help provide financial assistance for industry workers during the strikes.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like it when rich people do good things

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never forget:

[–] Kungolicious 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

While I agree with what this is saying, I’m not sure Seth MacFarlane is who the “Rich” is in this story.

[–] Smallletter 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Productive rich people like creatives are not the problem unless they do problematic things. Billionaires are always a problem and are exploitative by their very nature.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yep. You can get rich by being productive and lucky. You can't become a billionaire without exploitation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Same. I wish we had the infrastructure and protections to not need them to though.

[–] thunderclap 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More of the A-listers should do this.

[–] just_another_person 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tom Hanks surely has a few mil in between the couch cushions.

[–] Son_of_dad 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hanks probably has to support Chet, that's charity enough.

[–] just_another_person 5 points 1 year ago

Forgot about that. You're right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MFW* chet hanks 😔

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The article notes some others.

[–] onionbaggage 10 points 1 year ago

And that's why Seth has no trouble finding work.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seth McFarlane is worth between 200 and 300 million dollars, he could've kicked in 10

[–] zaph 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being worth a dollar amount doesn't mean you have that amount sitting in a bank account waiting for you to use it. I'm all for hating on the rich but you could at least educate yourself first.

[–] raltoid 7 points 1 year ago

Only a person who actually believes those net worth figures is stupid enough to say something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People like you will never be happy with anything. If he'd kicked in 50 million you would say he should give away his whole net worth. If he'd given his whole net worth, you'd say he should have sold his family into slavery to give twice that.

You and those like you are the reason people don't help each other out more. Nothing is ever good enough for you entitled little shits.

@downpunxx your downvote makes it way too obvious that you know I'm right.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awe c'mon.