Episode #146: Beast Practices

Saint and Jim might live on the internet, but that doesn’t mean they necessarily understand what it gets up to sometimes. Take, for instance, the idea of online altruism. In an era where GoFundMe is one of the nation’s biggest health care providers (and there’s increasing saber-rattling about taxing the ultra-rich to help provide services to the less-fortunate), you’d think a public figure who gave freely of their wealth would be a universal hero, right? Well, not necessarily. Enter Jimmy “Mr. Beast” Donaldson, a millionaire YouTuber who uses his resources to do things like buy cars for needy people, give houses away and even cure 1,000 people of blindness. Who could have an issue with that? You might be surprised. Check this one out if you ALSO can’t imagine who some people refer to this as “performative charity.”