Paul CantrellKeeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.
https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization
JillL@inthehands Proof, if anyone needed it, that extreme wealth is bad for your brain. Of all the good things Rowling could have done with her money, she does this. 🙄 🤪
cambria@jillL
I don't know, I think I'd make a great billionaire. I'd buy a castle in Scotland and donate to wildcat rescues. And have a herd of house cats. And not have a social media. And leave trans people alone. Maybe even use some of that billions to give money to an org that's helpful to trans people.
This is the alternative universe JKR I wish we'd gotten.
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Rasmus Lindegaard@cambria @jillL @inthehands unless money really does rot the brain and you only think you'd do those things because you're not a billionaire.
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Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
I'd never become a billionaire because I'd never sit on the money that long. I'd be like, "Ooh, here's a charity that needs it!" or "Hey, that guy needs a new car for work," or "I bet I could revitalize this town by hiring a bunch of people, so let's see how that might work."
So I'd just never accrue the money in the first place.
Cassandrich@realtegan @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands Exactly. It's not that money rots the brains of billionaires. It's that, to become a billionaire in the first place, you had to be extraordinarily evil and shallow in your choices of what to do with money.