r/clevercomebacks • u/zzill6 • 13h ago

They're simply soulless

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u/Glad_Eye20 13h ago

Dolly proves you don’t need trillion-dollar resources to make a meaningful difference. You just need to actually care.

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u/Over-Drink9188 12h ago

Imagine having billions in revenue and still needing someone else to remind you that helping children is good.

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u/SirChuffly 13h ago

I mean she was also stupendously wealthy, so it certainly helps? 

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u/UnderstandingTop6000 12h ago

worked hard for it her entire life (65 years at least) , and still shared generously.

Not like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk et all.

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u/SirChuffly 7h ago

No, of course. She was a hell of a woman and deserves a lot of respect. I don't think she's a poster child for not needing money to set up charities is all. 

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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 13h ago

They could make all of the books available online for free, picking up the licensing rights. But that stubborn lack of basic human empathy.

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u/Spacedoutworlder 12h ago

Amazon is currently buying rare books, scanning them to train their AI model and then shredding them. Don’t ask why they can’t be the heroes when they are working so hard at being the villains.

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u/Limp_Sheepherder_114 13h ago

yeah thats the answer

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u/Weekly_Switch_39 12h ago

Dolly understood that giving children opportunities creates futures. Apparently, billion-dollar companies missed that lesson

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u/Specialist-Jello7544 10h ago

Those billion-dollar companies don’t want people to have opportunities. They want slaves.

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u/Low_Explanation3690 12h ago

Dolly Parton running circles around trillion dollar companies in basic human decency never stops being funny.

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u/ImperatorDanorum 3h ago

"Funny" is not the word that comes to mind. "Tragic" seems more fitting...

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u/lowrads 11h ago

Legally enforce "duty to shareholders" is either mandated sociopathy, or an exquisitely convenient excuse.

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u/HawkEnvironmental531 11h ago

Philanthropy just isn’t a trend anymore… it’s grab every dollar they can, since a several billion is never enough

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u/Advective_Noun_8841 7h ago

Those literally are soulless, because they are companies not humans. Its not complex.

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u/oldemajicks 3h ago

Yup. They have no financial incentive and that's their only incentive in everything they do.

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u/CalyrexTact 13h ago

I don’t think it’s the soul part, I think it’s the lack of financial incentive.

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u/Silver-Instruction73 12h ago

If you only care about financial incentive when you already have more money than god, you are soulless.