Jeff Bezos Booed for Donating Half a Million 😳🙄 #Amazon #jeffbezos

I think this is outrageous personally, but, um, Jeff Bezos was at a star-studded charity dinner. He donated half a million— no, yeah, $500,000. Half a million. Just had to check because it might have been billion. He donated $500 million to a children's foundation and got groans and boos for doing it. And I think society as a whole has started to hate on billionaires. We don't need billionaires. There was a big, um, I would call it charm offensive, but it wasn't a charm offensive, it was a hate offensive in the UK in the media a few years back. We don't need any billionaires. Billionaire revenue should be capped. People's money should be capped. And now someone who is the biggest donor in the world, is getting booed for donating half a million pounds to a children's charity. Now, that children's charity, what could they do with half a million pounds? Probably a lot. There's probably children's lives who are going to be saved by that. Yet Jeff Bezos is getting booed for doing it. So I would love your thoughts on this. Do you have an issue with billionaires? Do you think billionaires should be paying more tax and donating more to charities? I'm going to give you my view, and it's not going to be popular for some people, but I think we've got to get real about this. So first off, let me tell you the news, and then make sure you hit the share button, and we'll discuss what you think and the moral dilemmas around this. So Jeff Bezos has just been booed at a charity event, or groaned and moaned, because he only donated half a million pounds. Here's the irony. Of those people at that charity event who booed and groaned at Jeff Bezos for only donating half a million, how many of them donated at all? So the event raised $8.5 million. Jeff Bezos donated half a million. So he donated 1/16. I don't know how many people were at this event. Hundreds. I'm betting you hundreds of people donated nothing, and I'm betting you some of those booed at Jeff Bezos for only donating half a million. What the fuck? 'What has the world come to? Stop booing billionaires and start donating yourself.' So my first issue with people hating on billionaires for not paying enough tax and not donating enough to charity is stop worrying about Jeff Bezos and the billionaires and double your earnings and donate 10% of that to charities. Like, you bitching about billionaires— and I say you plural, not you, but you— that's not going to make any difference. They're not going to look at you and go, 'Oh yeah, I better donate 10 billion now.' because Rob Moore moaned and booed at me. Of course they're not. But the world only changes when you change. The world doesn't change when you moan about other people that you want to change. This is now a big hate campaign going on for billionaires, and so many people, but who by the way earn fuck all and donate fuck all, bitching and moaning about Jeff Bezos. That's gonna change nothing, nothing at all. However, imagine this. Imagine if every earner on this planet— so there's 7 billion people on this planet, right? So let's say there's 4 billion people earning and working. Imagine if all of them just earned £100 extra and donated 10% of that to charities. 4 billion times £100, £400 billion, divided by 10, or times 10%, that would be £40 billion extra donated to charities and foundations if everyone who moaned about Jeff Bezos just earned an extra £100 and donated it to charity. I agree. Daniel has said this is getting boring. Now it is getting boring, all this hate on the rich, and you know, but here's the thing, I'm not going to stop talking about it. No way. Because there's so many good lessons and moral dilemmas and lacking of or taking personal responsibility. So I'm not going to stop talking about it. My mission is to help as many people on this planet start and scale their business and get better financial knowledge. That's my mission. And bitching about millionaires not paying tax or donating enough ain't gonna change the world, it ain't gonna make you money, it's gonna do nothing. However, you doubling your earnings and giving 10% of that away to charity is going to change the world. The world changes starting with you, I believe. All right, so Jeff Bezos has been booed for donating only half a million at a charity event, according to the National Post, at a star-studded LA charity gala. Forbes estimates Bezos' current net worth at $190.4 billion. But get this, in 2020, Jeff Bezos was ranked the highest donator, and he donated $10 billion to fight climate change. So Jeff Bezos donated more than 5% of his current net worth, so it could have been 10% of his net worth in 2020, to fight climate change. How many people who bitch and moan about Jeff Bezos and billionaires have donated 10% of their wealth in the last year for climate change. That would be 99.9% of them have not. Have not. Now, in 2018, he established the Bezos One Day Fund supporting the homeless and donated $300 million. So that's $10 billion, $300 million, half a million, and yet there's all this hate on Amazon and Jeff Bezos and the billionaires. Something is wrong with the world. So here are what I believe are the solutions to this. Instead of hating on the billionaires and alienating them and putting a gap between the government and the billionaires and the masses and the people and the billionaires and the working class and the billionaires, instead of that, why don't you look to change the world starting with yourself? If you earn £100 more and donate 10% of that to charity and 4 billion people did that, that's £40 billion to charity. However, if everyone doubled their wages or their salary or their earnings, those 4 billion people, then that is hundreds of billions. That's going to change the world. That's going to get rid of hunger. That's going to get rid of poverty. So you bitching and ranting and moaning to everybody else is not going to change the world. However, you starting with yourself and being the change you want to see, I believe that that is going to change the world. Um, so how much do you make, Rob, from being on TikTok, and how much do you donate? Um, I've donated more than a million to my foundation, the Rob Moore Foundation, to help young and underprivileged entrepreneurs and people start meaningful businesses that change the world. So I have a Rob Moore Foundation and I've raised hundreds of thousands, in fact more than a million. Um, someone, Andrea, said here, prove it. Now you prove it, Andrea. How much have you donated to charities? How much have you donated? And you prove it. I don't have to prove shit. Um, you can see my Rob Moore Foundation on the Charities Register and, um, Commission. Um, Andrea said it. Okay, so nothing to cancer. How do you know these things? Like, people should ask and seek to understand before they criticize. So actually, I have. I've donated hundreds of thousands to cancer research. My business partner's dad and my business partner's uncle died of cancer, and I've donated, um, hundreds of thousands of pounds to cancer research. And to Sue Ryder and to other charities. So this is the problem, you see. I mean, look, I don't mind, by the way. Um, it's funny because this person just said, you dare question me, but you just started questioning me. So, so for fuck's sake, wake up, people. Be the change you want to see in the world. Jeff Bezos, look, all right, is he avoiding some tax? Maybe. If you were a billionaire and you had a choice of paying £300 million in tax or £100 million in tax, what would you do? My guess is you'd choose the £100 million in tax. If you could move your company to Ireland legitimately and save hundreds of millions in tax so you could put that into recruitment, innovation, disruption, wouldn't you do that? Of course you freaking would. Of course you would. Of course you would. So Just to clarify this from Andrea's comments, I have a Rob Moore Foundation. It was set up a few years ago to help young and underprivileged people start meaningful businesses that change the world. That foundation donates all of the profits of my book money to help these young and underprivileged entrepreneurs. We've given many thousands to many, many different individuals to help them start meaningful businesses for climate change, and maybe they're in the developing world. So that's something I've been doing for many years that, Andrea, you assumed I wasn't and didn't care enough to ask. I've also raised hundreds of thousands for Sue Ryder Cancer Research. Now here's the irony, Andrea has sort of criticised me. I don't mind actually, I'm quite enjoying this engagement, otherwise I just would have ignored it. But the thing is, she works for Cancer Research. So instead of having a go at me and getting on the offensive, maybe she should have said, hey Rob, it looks like you're worth some money, how could we work together? What could we do more together? Are you interested in helping cancer? And this is the problem with people. They go on the offensive on social media attacking everyone instead of saying, wait a minute, Jeff Bezos, let's not alienate him. The government should be working more closely with Jeff Bezos. Because by the way, Jeff Bezos knows how to manage money. Jeff Bezos knows how to choose a charity and knows how to donate to a charity. The government do not. Here's the proof. Jeff Bezos is a profitable entity. He makes billions of pounds a year. The government is an insolvent entity. They are trillions in debt. So this is the problem with the world. We're alienating successful people, producers, the people who do actually donate most of the money to charities and foundations. And if we stopped alienating people and judging them and started to work more closely with them, like if, if the government had Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as advisors on the governmental board, they could get out of their debt because Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are solvent billionaires, whereas the government is essentially an insolvent trillion-dollar company. So here are my lessons from Jeff Bezos getting a load of hate, and me getting a bit as well. I don't give a fuck because I know what I do. So number 1: don't alienate the rich. If you alienate the rich, they're not going to want to support the masses. The masses and the rich could work together. The government and the rich could work together. If you were a billionaire and you had a choice of saving hundreds of millions in tax by moving your company to Ireland, you'd freaking do it. Because you could then reinvest it into innovation. You could invest it into staffing. You could invest it into employment. You could invest it into making meaningful products and services. So let's more work together. Next thing is you've got to learn how money works. So people moaning and groaning about Jeff Bezos only giving half a million at a charity event when in fact he is the highest donor in the world. $10 billion he donated in 2020 for climate change. Yet no one actually does a bit of research. If you Google who is the highest charity donor in the world, Jeff Bezos comes up first. Jeff Bezos comes up first. 2020, donated $10 billion. Anyone can find that research in 10 seconds flat. So we should be giving him more incentives to donate more because How many people do we have to combine at the working-class level to donate $10 billion? Hundreds of millions. So actually, these big creators and entrepreneurs who are changing the world— and here's the irony, all these people bitching and moaning about Jeff Bezos buying a load of shit on Amazon. So number one, I believe, support the rich. Help them want to give back. Number 2, what— right, here's the irony, right? Let's say we want to tax the rich more, which a lot of people want to do. They want to tax the rich because it's not fair. Well, do you know how hard they worked? Do you know the commitment they made? Do you know the debt they put themselves in? Do you know the decades of blood, sweat, and tears and sacrifice and the relationships they broke and the friendships they lost in order to set up a company called Amazon that we can click and buy? People do not honor that. But here's the thing, if we take all their freaking money by penalizing them in tax, what are the government going to do with the money? So I'd like your honest thoughts here. Do you think if we gave the government a trillion dollars from the top 10 billionaires, do you think they would manage and invest that, that trillion well? Well, they're trillions in debt. The government are trillions in debt. The politicians are not incentivized to make choices for the betterment of the planet. They're incentivized to make decisions in the benefit of their career. And that's not me attacking politicians, but if you only have a short tenure, 1 year, 2 years, 4 years, that's your goal, to hold and extend your tenure. So it's a short-term play instead of a long-term vision. So Elon Musk and Steve Jobs And of course Steve Jobs has passed away, but Elon Musk and Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, they have 20 and 30 and 40-year visions. So they have better incentive, better outcomes, long-term thinking. So also, if everyone who complained about billionaires doubled their earnings and gave 10% of their money away, they'd change the world. You ain't going to change the world bitching and moaning about Jeff Bezos. You are going to change the world focusing on yourself and looking at how much you can earn. And here's the irony: I've got someone here called Andrea on my TikTok Live, and she's taking potshots at me, and then she's saying, have I got enough money to donate for some kind of cancer scanning equipment? Whereas if she was more open-minded to learn about me and actually learn I've donated more than 7 figures to charities, and I donate all the the profits of my book money to my foundation, and I've supported cancer charities. And she was— she wasn't coming from a place of attack, which, by the way, she's not attacking me because of me, because she doesn't know me. She's attacking me because of her own hurt, her own experience, her own sense of injustices, because of how she's been raised by her family and how she's been raised by society and religion and culture. And by the way, they're general statements. I'm not now saying that about this one person because I don't know her, but the point The point is, anyone who comes and attacks a billionaire or a deca-millionaire or a hundred-millionaire without knowing them is judging that wealthy person based on their own experience, not the experience of the billionaire, not the reality of how money really works. So, um, by the way, make sure you follow me on all the channels. Thank you for Following my work here, I'm going to open up for a discussion and a debate soon. I'd love your thoughts. Let me just summarize the breaking news and then please share this. So the breaking news is Jeff Bezos got groaned and booed at a recent charity event because he only donated half a million dollars, which is 1/16 of the total raise. It was according to the National Post, and it was at a star-studded LA charity gala. Donated, he donated half a million to a children's welfare fund. Now, if anyone did any research, they'd find out that he was the highest donor in the world in 2020, and he gave $10 billion to climate change. And so I think there should be a little bit less attacking of the billionaires and the wealthy, and maybe looking at how we can work together. How can the masses work with the billionaires? How can the government work with the billionaires? How can we establish a fair taxing system? How can we as millionaires and billionaires and creators and innovators and disruptors, how can we ensure that our tax money is invested well? Because by the way, I do begrudge paying 70% of my total income and expenditure on tax when I see what they're doing and not doing with it. So I'll give you— so I've worked this out in terms of my corporate and personal income and personal spending with that corporation tax, national insurance twice, business rates, income tax, etc. 70% of every pound that I generate is tax. And yet my government in the UK spent £4 billion of that on an app that didn't fucking work. And that app went and pinged a load of people mistakenly after Freedom Day, after the lockdown, and half my staff had to go off work for 10 days because they got inaccurately pinged by an app that doesn't work that they spent £4 billion of my money and I only got 30p in the pound that I earned. And then I can't produce because if half my staff are off, I can't produce. It's fucking wrong. It's wrong fundamentally from the core in the system. Anyway, quick summary. Hit the share button if you agree. Let me know in the comments what you want to discuss about this. Jeff Bezos is getting a load of hate, so are billionaires, except Jeff Bezos is the highest donator in the world in 2020, donating $10 billion. Stop the hate on the billionaires, start working with them more closely. The governments and the billionaires should work together. The government should learn from the billionaires on how to run a solvent company, because the government is an insolvent company. It's not even a company. And the governments and the billionaires could actually work together and create a fair taxation system. With a bit of work on either side. Governments say, hmm, we think you're paying a little bit less. How can we meet in the middle? How can we work together? And then there's a growing hate now for billionaires and the richest people, and I just want to be part of changing that. I.e., you only hate something if there's something in you that you have unresolved, or you hate, or you're hurt, or you're bitter, or you're jealous, or something to do with your projections through your upbringing. Here's the reason I can say if you hate billionaires, it's nothing to do with the billionaires, because you don't know them and you've never met them. Now, I've interviewed 16 billionaires, by the way. I'm friends with a few billionaires, and every one of them is the most giving, kind, generous person that I've personally met. They do way more for the planet than the zero airs. Now, I'm not criticizing zero airs because sometimes you don't know what you don't know, but until you know someone Until you know someone, how can you judge? All right, okay, great. So support the rich, work with the rich, try and work out a way how there's fair exchange between the profits of the rich and what they do for the government and the charities and the climate change, etc. All these people banging on about climate change but donating no money and doing nothing for it. Be the change you want to see in the world. Imagine how the world will change if every one of us declared that in the next year we were going to increase our wealth by 20%. So imagine 4 billion people saying, I'm going to work a bit harder, I'm going to increase my wealth by 20%, and I'm going to give 10% of that 20% increase away to charity. So let's say the average person earns 5 grand, so they're going to endeavor to earn 6 grand a month, by the way. So let's call it 50 grand a year. 4 billion people across the planet pledge to work a bit harder and offer a bit more value, and we all go on average from 50 grand to 60 grand. So we all earn an extra 10 grand, and we give 10% of that, a grand, away to charity. 4 billion people giving a grand away to charity. That changes the world. Now someone said that's not how it works. No, it doesn't work like that, because all those people are too busy bitching and moaning about the rich. So no, because people don't want to change. They want to shout about what everyone else is doing wrong, but they don't want to change themselves. Like, how can someone at a charity ball moan and groan about Jeff Bezos only donating half a million when they donated zero? Fucking hell. All right, cool. I hope you found this useful. I passionately believe that you should be the change you want to see in the world, which means if you want people to give more money away, you should give more money away. If you want more support for foundations and charities, you should either set up your foundation and/or charity or support a foundation or charity. That's how you change the world. And I personally don't think raising taxes is the answer. Why? Because I don't think the people who manage our tax money are going to use it usefully. So let me know what you think, by the way. Do you think if we gave our governments an extra trillion in tax revenue, Do you think they would manage that money well? Do you think they would invest that money well? I mean, man, there's all sorts of stuff here. So for example, someone says Tory vibes. I don't even represent any party. So I just think that we should judge less and seek to learn more. Okay, cool. Thanks for tuning in. It must hurt being in my head. No, it's good. I love being in my head. It must hurt being a hater. I mean, you know, only hurt people hurt people. I mean, you know, thinking about being a hater, it's like, well, how hurt must you be to spend your morning not with your children, not setting up your foundation, and not raising money, and not doing good in the world, but watch someone who's trying to change the world and criticize them? I just kind of feel sorry for those people, really. Um, cool. All right then, thanks for tuning in on the lives. I'm opening up the discussion now in the Clubhouse room, so I'd love to hear what everyone thinks. By the way, you don't have to agree with me, it's all good. I encourage debate and discussion in my content. You can see that because I'm engaging even with the critics in my lives. 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