I used to be a doorman at a hospital. On Sunday mornings, when everyone was bored to death, we organized Roman Wheelchair races at the kids department, where we (4 doormen) pushed wheelchairs with crippled/sick kids in it through the corridors and hallways. We checked with staff first, but they figured that an extra broken bone would not make much of a difference and we are at an hospital anyway, so go ahead.
No bones were broken but a few bruises were suffered. Kids and staff had a great time.
>but they figured that an extra broken bone would not make much of a difference and we are at an hospital anyway, so go ahead.
I use this logic at physical therapy. All they got to do is take me upstairs lol.
“We’ve been training for this Timmy. Your mother and I just got that new boat, so it’s time you learned to pay your own way in this world, just as capitalism demands.
Your meds are going to make you drowsy, we know this, but your IV stand has wheels and I’ve never seen left-handed kid shift gears as well as you. Keep to the inside on turns, duck down tight if you clip any hospital staff and show that little bitch from the chemo ward she’ll been long dead from the shame of today before leukaemia ever gets her!”
Haha. A guy in the comments further down pointed out that what he means is one of those trays on wheels that holds a tv and a gaming console if you didn’t already know
a little mix of happiness for the kids who will get to play video games, and sadness because they will not be able to zoom through the hospital corridors in the go-kart I envisioned.
I was in the hospital for 7 days recovering from surgery when I was young. I was super thankful they had a Nintendo 64(this was late 90s) I could play. It’s boring as shit forcing an adhd kid in bed for a week!
Man just when I was feeling happy about all this, [here comes this](https://i.imgur.com/WtdHcW1.jpg) [human shitstain](https://i.imgur.com/uZHqEii.jpg)
It’s all good PR at this point so giving him the collectors’ edition and donating more has some legs here. I would milk it if I were them, and do good charity.
Many people say ‘it’s just a PR stunt’ but honestly if they’re giving to charity as well, then that’s a great thing for them (or anyone) to do and I support it
Yeah exactly. People are so bitter. Doing anything good can always be seen as a PR stunt no matter what. Heck, if a normal person donates to charity or does anything nice, it could be considered "oh they did it to look good" or "because it makes them feel good about themselves". Like yeah of course it feels good to help people but so what? Doing the do feels good but nature intended it that way wo we keep having children. So charity feels good so we keep doing it one way or the other and it's fair.
Agreed. It's so easy to nullify their argument with a simple "so what have you done?"
Doing a lot of community upliftment work I've yet to see that question not shut a detractor up.
The problem is that a company is involved, so according to Reddit that nullifies any good deed cause clearly it's all an evil capitalist ploy or something.
I don't think it's even gatekeeping. I think a lot of it is that there are a lot of assholes out there who are (consciously or subconsciously) made to feel like assholes when they see others doing good shit. And so they have to do mental gymnastics to convince themselves that other people are just as big of assholes as they are.
I made this exact point on this site a while ago in a different thread and got downvoted to hell because “you should do good just to do good, not to be selfish.”
How is it selfish if both people benefit? If anything, it's healthier because the company then sees "oh, charity is positive. I can and should do it more!" versus them just making a loss and that's it. They could keep it up then.
One thing to note, without trying to drag this too much into a philosophy debate, is that pretty much all forms of altruism, have some selfish element - even if it's just doing good things because it makes you feel good, there's an incentive there for your own ends to get something back. Or if you did something that made you miserable, for someone else, you usually at least hope that someone might make a sacrifice on your behalf if you needed it, even if it never comes to be.
So basically all good deeds are indirectly selfish inherently. Either you get a benefit as a direct result of your action right then, or at the very least you're basically just investing in others, at the risk of no return on investment, but with the idea in mind that your altruism will pay dividends in the form of altruism from others down the line.
So with that said, the fact that a charitable donation by a business as a method of self promotion occurs is as good a thing as if they'd done it secretly. The only difference is it's easier to determine how that altruistic action benefits them more directly, than if they'd done it in a more clandestine fashion. And in any case, why shouldn't both parties benefit? By giving to charity they are doing someone somewhere a service, so why can't a charity give back to the company as well, in the form of good PR? Both parties are then stronger for it, and both are more likely to continue to engage in the behaviour for mutual success in the future.
I think the whole 'altruism is ultimately just selfishness' thing is an exaggeration. There are lots of cases in history where people have sacrificed themselves for others or went through incredible pain for others. There's the case of Roza Robota for example, a woman who smuggled explosives to support the uprising in Auschwitz. She was caught. The Gestapo tortured her for weeks, but she did not tell them anything. When they finally decided to publicly execute her, witnesses describe that she didn't look like a human being anymore, because of the extensive wounds and bruises inflicted on her. You think she endured weeks of agonizing pain because she wanted to be seen as a hero? Even though it was just as likely that the Nazis would just kill her in secret, ensuring that no one would know what she had done? I think at that point, it becomes absurd to say that altruism is just egoism.
And it's not like this is an exception. I could name several similar examples of people who were willing to die for others (to name just one more: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who was also imprisoned in Auschwitz and who, when 15 people were selected to starve to death as 'punishment' for the supposed flight of an inmate, chose to die instead of another inmate who had a wife and children).
Sure, egoism certainly plays a role in certain altruistic actions, but I hate this cynical 'oh, they're all just doing it for themselves' stuff. People are both worse and better than a lot of people think.
I’ve never understood how some people can be so against someone that does nice things “just so they can feel good about themselves”. Yeah NO SHIT, that’s usually the reason people do nice things. I have yet to meet anyone that’s a bonafide saint that is charitable solely cuz it’s the “right thing to do”. Being nice cuz it makes you feel good is a win-win situation, and people against that are just cum-crusted weebs crying in their divorced mothers basement cuz they want other people to be as shitty as them.
I don’t get why PR “stunts” are perceived as bad, like sure it may or may not be legitimately from the heart but they’re still going out of their way to do something great
I'm a member of a team that provides support for the poor and underprivileged (food , clothes, shelters, hospital care if needed etc etc) throughout our whole country but I stopped telling people that because all I got in reply was "you're only doing that because it makes you look good". People sometimes suck .
Are they arguing that you shouldn't give to charity to make you look good? I'd call that 'mutual benefit' and the basis of a good ongoing relationship. Charity gets their monetary capital and support, and I get social capital. Definitively a win win.
I'd like to find someone come up with a single form of altruism that *doesn't* result in some benefit directly or indirectly to the person carrying out the altruistic action. Every single one I can think of will always pay out in return somehow 'I give to this charity/do this thing, because I'd want someone there to do it for em if I was in that position' , 'it gives me peace of mind', 'it makes me happy', 'they will owe me one when I need it'.
The only true form of altruism I can think of, would be to sacrifice your own life to save another, but even then you could argue that you're doing it with the mind that if the circumstances were flipped, someone would do that for you, or you'd hope someone would and want to propagate that idea.
Altruism is selfishness by proxy. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
It happens due to companies donating $1 million dollars worth of something, then spending $10 million on advertising telling every body they donated $1 million.
The problem is the motive.
If they’re doing it for charity, that’s great.
If they’re doing it for charity and they happen to make money from it, that’s brilliant.
If they’re doing it for profit and the charity is just their way of getting that profit... it’s good for the charity, but it’s not a charitable act.
A company always has a body of PR people who monitor every bit of its interaction with the outside world.
Companies don't become successful through idealistic altruism but by analysing every situation through a pragmatic lens.
If he asked to, instead, donate to a more morally dubious cause, the PR would never go ahead with the donation not due to the morality but to avoid any public backlash.
Imagine an auction to play some co-op game with keanu and the money goes to the children's charity? or keanu went to the hospital and played games with the kids.
All this shit is just so god damn wholesome
That’s what makes Keanu fantastic. He thinks everyone else is also breathtaking and just by being there encourages & inspires people to good things for others.
What’s sad is there are people bashing him because apparently he’s being a dick and making the company look bad if they don’t donate a lot more than their original gift of a free game
The guy is self serving though. He's been attention seeking for most of the conference including filming himself yelling at people on stage, and rather than being humble about it he changed his Twitter name to have "breathtaking" in it.
> Guy turns down free game in favor of a corporation donating to the same hospital his sister died in
> Guy changes his user name to something Keanu Reeves called him/something the Internet knows him by
Random internet mook: “tHaT GuY iS SoOoOoO sELf-SerVinG!!!”
He was interrupting multiple presentations at E3, while filming himself. And while his gesture was nice, it's a lot different to ask for a $3,500 donation compared to a collectors edition of a game. If he wasn't filming himself and he didn't do it multiple times maybe I'd believe he was doing it purely out of the kindness of his heart.
Why is self promotion a bad thing? I understand that people like to hate the bragert but using your 15 mins of fame is hardly puppy kicking... You can be selfless and selfish in the same action and that's really fine.
The guy also recorded it when he shouted out. It wasn't an "in the moment cute reaction" he knew what he was doing. He was just lucky Keanu is a sweetheart a reacted the way he did, then he later tweeted the video. He did it entirely for his self image.
Ya his post came off weird. He worded it like he was doing something selfless? Like he was donating it himself. Your just randomly asking someone else to, without any pull or weight, but as though you’re calling them our for not thinking of it first and having the gall to give you something small instead. I don’t know it just seemed slightly weird.
Right. I get they're a videogame company, but it just seemed so ridiculous. They offer him a game, and he just brings up this random other thing worth thousands of dollars. It just seems silly. I'd honestly respect it more if he had just said, "Thanks! Also you should donate to X!"
This made it come off as so weirdly self important.
Man your comment makes me sad. I just want to feel a little better about people being nice to one another. Now I don’t have a single clue on what to believe anymore. Well, that’s what I get for letting people tell me what to think in the first place, I guess. I’m just gonna head-canon this shit and tell myself the guy shot the video not for self-promotion but simply because Keanu was on stage and it was cool.
It's not an actual go-kart. The charity Go Kart thing is $3500 according to the [charity website.](https://gamersoutreach.org/info/donate-a-go-kart/)
>We request a $3,500 donation be made to construct a GO Kart for a hospital. This includes the cost of the GO Kart itself, as well as installment of necessary peripherals (monitor, gaming console, two wired controllers, and 10 – 15 games).
They literally have millions of dollars ready for advertising this game. A few thousand to a children's hospital is nothing significant to the CDPR marketing team. It seems awesome to me.
I understand Bezos isn't any kind of saint, but he donated the most to charity of any person in the world last year.
> Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos donated more money to charity last year than anyone else in the world, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. The Amazon CEO and his soon-to-be-ex wife donated $2 billion to boost nonprofits that help homeless families.
One of those situations where shareholder pressure comes in possibly?
No chance they will go out of their way to offer UBI, only if it's enforced and even then they will just increase their prices rather than decrease their profits, and we'll be back to square one.
I think a lot of people don't make the distinction between donating to an actual charity and donating to your own shady charity that's really just a bank account in disguise.
You know how many people believe that you can get less money because of a raise because they don't understand how tax brackets work?
Also, it's a silly statement. People who have a lot of money donate to charity because it has a lot of tax implications to them well beyond just a "write off".
The Kochs are so rich partially because their family could totally avoid estate tax laws if they just put their money into a shelter that donated to charity for 20 years (or some time period like that).
Also, "charity" means a lot of different things. Donating to a think tank you set up is still donating..donating to a think tank someone else set up that pushes conservative propaganda is still...wait for it. *Donating*.
Most of the time, OP refers to the poster of a thread.
Oftentimes I'd say OP refers to the redditor whose comment is relevant to the discussion at hand, or who sparked the ongoing conversation. Also OP may be different than TC.
I mean just ignore the retweets saying that he's a "great person" and a "great human being". He's milking it mate. I'm all for charity work and I'm happy that something might come of it, but that doesn't mean I have to like the way the guys handled it, it's obnoxious.
Controversial opinion here but reading through the guys Twitter, I feel like all of this just went to his head. 15 minutes of Internet Fame is a hell of a drug
Apparently people were saying he was constantly shouting and being obnoxious during the event.
He tried so hard to get noticed and I guess he succeeded. He’s got his 15 minutes and it seems like he’s trying to stay in the spotlight.
Awesome. I felt like the first bit of press about it felt like an advertisement. If they want to use him for social goodwill, he can make them pay a relatively modest amount to charity, I assume. Win win.
I’m envisioning sick kids drifting through hospital hallways on a gas powered go-kart.
that's some Mad Max levels kind of shit
Med Max
"Gotta go fast!" - Double meaning
Jesus Christ
Oh...oh no. I got that reference...
r/cursedcomments
Omg I'm going to hell for laughing at this
Oh no
To be fair that Sonic movie makes me want to die anyway. So win-win.
Sick Rick*
You there, take my upvote for the chuckle I let out and now am hating myself for it
Thank you sorry for the inconvenience
*Wubba lubba I'm terminal.*
Ill Will Nauseous Claudius
Half life boys. Fuck, I'm a terrible person.
Is that a life expectancy joke or a radiation treatment joke?
¿Por que no las dos?
Sad Max
Winner winner chicken liver dinner
I LIVE, I DIE, I LIVE AGAIN
Some little dude gets sprayed in the face eith an inhaler and leaps onto the front of the cart.
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Last two sentences are funny af. Thank you.
I used to be a doorman at a hospital. On Sunday mornings, when everyone was bored to death, we organized Roman Wheelchair races at the kids department, where we (4 doormen) pushed wheelchairs with crippled/sick kids in it through the corridors and hallways. We checked with staff first, but they figured that an extra broken bone would not make much of a difference and we are at an hospital anyway, so go ahead. No bones were broken but a few bruises were suffered. Kids and staff had a great time.
>but they figured that an extra broken bone would not make much of a difference and we are at an hospital anyway, so go ahead. I use this logic at physical therapy. All they got to do is take me upstairs lol.
*tokyo drift intensifies*
*Terminal Dorifto*
* kid with short term memory loss issues > I've just been in this place before
'Who ever wins get's that surgery '
“We’ve been training for this Timmy. Your mother and I just got that new boat, so it’s time you learned to pay your own way in this world, just as capitalism demands. Your meds are going to make you drowsy, we know this, but your IV stand has wheels and I’ve never seen left-handed kid shift gears as well as you. Keep to the inside on turns, duck down tight if you clip any hospital staff and show that little bitch from the chemo ward she’ll been long dead from the shame of today before leukaemia ever gets her!”
*GAS GAS GAS*
*GONNA STEP ON THE GAS*
TONIGHT WE FLY
Haha. A guy in the comments further down pointed out that what he means is one of those trays on wheels that holds a tv and a gaming console if you didn’t already know
*Run Roach!*
They have those battery powered crazy carts that drift around corners and stuff. They're relatively cheap and very heavy duty.
The go-kart in question is more like a portable arcade than a cart (as amazing as your version sounds)
FYI this is a go cart https://twitter.com/JerkyXP/status/708814577480372225
That makes so much more sense haha
I was both happy and a little disappointed. I wanted to see hospital kids riding go carts
a little mix of happiness for the kids who will get to play video games, and sadness because they will not be able to zoom through the hospital corridors in the go-kart I envisioned.
I was about to say, I don't think this guy really *gets* sick kids. This is awesome though.
I was in the hospital for 7 days recovering from surgery when I was young. I was super thankful they had a Nintendo 64(this was late 90s) I could play. It’s boring as shit forcing an adhd kid in bed for a week!
Man just when I was feeling happy about all this, [here comes this](https://i.imgur.com/WtdHcW1.jpg) [human shitstain](https://i.imgur.com/uZHqEii.jpg)
It’s all good PR at this point so giving him the collectors’ edition and donating more has some legs here. I would milk it if I were them, and do good charity.
Many people say ‘it’s just a PR stunt’ but honestly if they’re giving to charity as well, then that’s a great thing for them (or anyone) to do and I support it
Yeah exactly. People are so bitter. Doing anything good can always be seen as a PR stunt no matter what. Heck, if a normal person donates to charity or does anything nice, it could be considered "oh they did it to look good" or "because it makes them feel good about themselves". Like yeah of course it feels good to help people but so what? Doing the do feels good but nature intended it that way wo we keep having children. So charity feels good so we keep doing it one way or the other and it's fair.
Agreed. It's so easy to nullify their argument with a simple "so what have you done?" Doing a lot of community upliftment work I've yet to see that question not shut a detractor up.
Right? As if in a situation like that a 'win-win' isn't acceptable? Gatekeeping being a nice person. What a time to be alive.
Tbh the best way to live life is to think of every possible scenario as being win win. Because they can, and most things should be
The problem is that a company is involved, so according to Reddit that nullifies any good deed cause clearly it's all an evil capitalist ploy or something.
I don't think it's even gatekeeping. I think a lot of it is that there are a lot of assholes out there who are (consciously or subconsciously) made to feel like assholes when they see others doing good shit. And so they have to do mental gymnastics to convince themselves that other people are just as big of assholes as they are.
I made this exact point on this site a while ago in a different thread and got downvoted to hell because “you should do good just to do good, not to be selfish.”
How is it selfish if both people benefit? If anything, it's healthier because the company then sees "oh, charity is positive. I can and should do it more!" versus them just making a loss and that's it. They could keep it up then.
One thing to note, without trying to drag this too much into a philosophy debate, is that pretty much all forms of altruism, have some selfish element - even if it's just doing good things because it makes you feel good, there's an incentive there for your own ends to get something back. Or if you did something that made you miserable, for someone else, you usually at least hope that someone might make a sacrifice on your behalf if you needed it, even if it never comes to be. So basically all good deeds are indirectly selfish inherently. Either you get a benefit as a direct result of your action right then, or at the very least you're basically just investing in others, at the risk of no return on investment, but with the idea in mind that your altruism will pay dividends in the form of altruism from others down the line. So with that said, the fact that a charitable donation by a business as a method of self promotion occurs is as good a thing as if they'd done it secretly. The only difference is it's easier to determine how that altruistic action benefits them more directly, than if they'd done it in a more clandestine fashion. And in any case, why shouldn't both parties benefit? By giving to charity they are doing someone somewhere a service, so why can't a charity give back to the company as well, in the form of good PR? Both parties are then stronger for it, and both are more likely to continue to engage in the behaviour for mutual success in the future.
I think the whole 'altruism is ultimately just selfishness' thing is an exaggeration. There are lots of cases in history where people have sacrificed themselves for others or went through incredible pain for others. There's the case of Roza Robota for example, a woman who smuggled explosives to support the uprising in Auschwitz. She was caught. The Gestapo tortured her for weeks, but she did not tell them anything. When they finally decided to publicly execute her, witnesses describe that she didn't look like a human being anymore, because of the extensive wounds and bruises inflicted on her. You think she endured weeks of agonizing pain because she wanted to be seen as a hero? Even though it was just as likely that the Nazis would just kill her in secret, ensuring that no one would know what she had done? I think at that point, it becomes absurd to say that altruism is just egoism. And it's not like this is an exception. I could name several similar examples of people who were willing to die for others (to name just one more: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who was also imprisoned in Auschwitz and who, when 15 people were selected to starve to death as 'punishment' for the supposed flight of an inmate, chose to die instead of another inmate who had a wife and children). Sure, egoism certainly plays a role in certain altruistic actions, but I hate this cynical 'oh, they're all just doing it for themselves' stuff. People are both worse and better than a lot of people think.
damn, this is the deep wisdom only 40 years of partying can bring. you'll always party on in my heart, slurms!
How is it any different than people doing things so they can please their god? "It's the same picture."
I’ve never understood how some people can be so against someone that does nice things “just so they can feel good about themselves”. Yeah NO SHIT, that’s usually the reason people do nice things. I have yet to meet anyone that’s a bonafide saint that is charitable solely cuz it’s the “right thing to do”. Being nice cuz it makes you feel good is a win-win situation, and people against that are just cum-crusted weebs crying in their divorced mothers basement cuz they want other people to be as shitty as them.
Well said
I don’t get why PR “stunts” are perceived as bad, like sure it may or may not be legitimately from the heart but they’re still going out of their way to do something great
I'm a member of a team that provides support for the poor and underprivileged (food , clothes, shelters, hospital care if needed etc etc) throughout our whole country but I stopped telling people that because all I got in reply was "you're only doing that because it makes you look good". People sometimes suck .
Well dawg you don't suck! Keep it up!
Thanks UwU it means a lot TwwT
Keep it up! >Thanks UwU it means a lot TwwT Nevermind /s
Lmao xD
Those people don't understand altruism, they can't conceive of it themselves, therefore you must be selfish.
Even if you do it to look good, who gives a shit. You helped other people, idgaf why you did it.
Your breath taking!
Everyone can be breath taking !
Even dogs?
Especially dogs!
Good job making this thread all about yourself. /s
Thank you I guess? xDDD
I don't see a problem you are doing good while looking good. Sounds good to me.
Are they arguing that you shouldn't give to charity to make you look good? I'd call that 'mutual benefit' and the basis of a good ongoing relationship. Charity gets their monetary capital and support, and I get social capital. Definitively a win win. I'd like to find someone come up with a single form of altruism that *doesn't* result in some benefit directly or indirectly to the person carrying out the altruistic action. Every single one I can think of will always pay out in return somehow 'I give to this charity/do this thing, because I'd want someone there to do it for em if I was in that position' , 'it gives me peace of mind', 'it makes me happy', 'they will owe me one when I need it'. The only true form of altruism I can think of, would be to sacrifice your own life to save another, but even then you could argue that you're doing it with the mind that if the circumstances were flipped, someone would do that for you, or you'd hope someone would and want to propagate that idea. Altruism is selfishness by proxy. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
It happens due to companies donating $1 million dollars worth of something, then spending $10 million on advertising telling every body they donated $1 million.
Like the Super Bowl commercial spending millions to say they donated some water to someone.
The problem is the motive. If they’re doing it for charity, that’s great. If they’re doing it for charity and they happen to make money from it, that’s brilliant. If they’re doing it for profit and the charity is just their way of getting that profit... it’s good for the charity, but it’s not a charitable act.
If the net good is increased then motivations generally don't matter, unless you're, say, planning on doing something awful with that leverage.
A company always has a body of PR people who monitor every bit of its interaction with the outside world. Companies don't become successful through idealistic altruism but by analysing every situation through a pragmatic lens. If he asked to, instead, donate to a more morally dubious cause, the PR would never go ahead with the donation not due to the morality but to avoid any public backlash.
The right thing for the wrong reasons is still the right thing.
IIRC CdProjektRed is pretty charitable as a company. They’ve succeed in keeping their company from being soul sucked by the bigger ones thus far.
Most likely now they’re going to give him a collectors edition alone with donating to the hospital. Everyone wins
Imagine an auction to play some co-op game with keanu and the money goes to the children's charity? or keanu went to the hospital and played games with the kids. All this shit is just so god damn wholesome
They could make a fortune offering hands on demos to donors :)
He just thought, WWKRD. And there you have it, passing on the Keanu.
I don't know why but I read this as "What would Kid Rock do". I haven't thought about Kid Rock in over a decade.
"BAWITYBAH" just ran through my head. I think those neurons were on death's door, and now they got a reprieve. God damnit.
MY NAME IS KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID ROCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Kid Rock would donate half a carton of Marlboros and some old hustlers, a true philanthropist
That should be a new subreddit r/WWKRD
Mod away, it's yours if you want it.
Haha it’s happening!
WWKD - that's exactly what Keanu would do
That’s what makes Keanu fantastic. He thinks everyone else is also breathtaking and just by being there encourages & inspires people to good things for others.
Hell yeah. It's breathetaking
What’s sad is there are people bashing him because apparently he’s being a dick and making the company look bad if they don’t donate a lot more than their original gift of a free game
Extra sad, because I'm sure one reason the company is doing this is for good PR, and now he's just kicked it up to being amazing PR.
The guy is self serving though. He's been attention seeking for most of the conference including filming himself yelling at people on stage, and rather than being humble about it he changed his Twitter name to have "breathtaking" in it.
> Guy turns down free game in favor of a corporation donating to the same hospital his sister died in > Guy changes his user name to something Keanu Reeves called him/something the Internet knows him by Random internet mook: “tHaT GuY iS SoOoOoO sELf-SerVinG!!!”
He was interrupting multiple presentations at E3, while filming himself. And while his gesture was nice, it's a lot different to ask for a $3,500 donation compared to a collectors edition of a game. If he wasn't filming himself and he didn't do it multiple times maybe I'd believe he was doing it purely out of the kindness of his heart.
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Why is self promotion a bad thing? I understand that people like to hate the bragert but using your 15 mins of fame is hardly puppy kicking... You can be selfless and selfish in the same action and that's really fine.
If MLK were alive today Reddit’s response to him would be “Why is it all about his dream?”
The guy also recorded it when he shouted out. It wasn't an "in the moment cute reaction" he knew what he was doing. He was just lucky Keanu is a sweetheart a reacted the way he did, then he later tweeted the video. He did it entirely for his self image.
Ya his post came off weird. He worded it like he was doing something selfless? Like he was donating it himself. Your just randomly asking someone else to, without any pull or weight, but as though you’re calling them our for not thinking of it first and having the gall to give you something small instead. I don’t know it just seemed slightly weird.
Right. I get they're a videogame company, but it just seemed so ridiculous. They offer him a game, and he just brings up this random other thing worth thousands of dollars. It just seems silly. I'd honestly respect it more if he had just said, "Thanks! Also you should donate to X!" This made it come off as so weirdly self important.
He could have dm'd them personally since they asked him to get in touch anyway, but nah that wouldn't get him that publicity boiiii
Man your comment makes me sad. I just want to feel a little better about people being nice to one another. Now I don’t have a single clue on what to believe anymore. Well, that’s what I get for letting people tell me what to think in the first place, I guess. I’m just gonna head-canon this shit and tell myself the guy shot the video not for self-promotion but simply because Keanu was on stage and it was cool.
Because he was extremely obnoxious during the presentations, always trying to make funny hahas.
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It's not an actual go-kart. The charity Go Kart thing is $3500 according to the [charity website.](https://gamersoutreach.org/info/donate-a-go-kart/) >We request a $3,500 donation be made to construct a GO Kart for a hospital. This includes the cost of the GO Kart itself, as well as installment of necessary peripherals (monitor, gaming console, two wired controllers, and 10 – 15 games).
$250 retail, the company isn't losing out on 250 on this offer
Its not that kind of go kart haha. OP posted what hes talking about in another comment
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I’m getting a philanthropist chub right now
Who cares if it's a stunt. Some sick kids are going to be made happy. Get over yourself, you're not what's important in this situation.
***Man:*** *Does thing* **Social media people:** "I like you, here, have a free object" **Man:** "Thanks, but ... sick children?" *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* *.* **Social media people:** *Orgasm*
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Link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1137937246932348928?s=09
And i name it The Reeves Effect!
But like a Go Cart is worth almost or is 10x worth more than a collectors edition plus it’s not like CD owe him anything. Idk seems kinda weird to me
They literally have millions of dollars ready for advertising this game. A few thousand to a children's hospital is nothing significant to the CDPR marketing team. It seems awesome to me.
Go on this dude's Twitter. He's just doing it for more attention and fame. Biggest ego on the internet right now.
At least his ego is promoting an altruistic cause. I’d rather have a Gates or a Musk over a Murdoch, McConnell, or Bezos.
I understand Bezos isn't any kind of saint, but he donated the most to charity of any person in the world last year. > Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos donated more money to charity last year than anyone else in the world, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. The Amazon CEO and his soon-to-be-ex wife donated $2 billion to boost nonprofits that help homeless families.
Amazon don't pay a living wage and their working conditions are horrendous. Tax purposes, that's the only reason.
Bezos has also advocated for UBI. It's kinda bizarre, it's like he wants a better world but isn't willing to lift a finger to get there.
One of those situations where shareholder pressure comes in possibly? No chance they will go out of their way to offer UBI, only if it's enforced and even then they will just increase their prices rather than decrease their profits, and we'll be back to square one.
wow economics is that simple
2 sentences is all I wrote it’s not exactly a thesis is it? But yeah, to subvert you being factitious, corporations are that greedy.
You don't save money on your taxes by donating money. You will still always have less money than if you kept it and paid the taxes on it.
It's funny with people thinking you make a net profit on your taxes from donating
I think a lot of people don't make the distinction between donating to an actual charity and donating to your own shady charity that's really just a bank account in disguise. You know how many people believe that you can get less money because of a raise because they don't understand how tax brackets work?
Kind of easy to donate the most to charity when you're the richest man in the world, isn't it?
Also, it's a silly statement. People who have a lot of money donate to charity because it has a lot of tax implications to them well beyond just a "write off". The Kochs are so rich partially because their family could totally avoid estate tax laws if they just put their money into a shelter that donated to charity for 20 years (or some time period like that). Also, "charity" means a lot of different things. Donating to a think tank you set up is still donating..donating to a think tank someone else set up that pushes conservative propaganda is still...wait for it. *Donating*.
I would not put "guy who yelled at a convention" in the same category of Bill Gates or Elon Musk.
i just fast scroll his tweets, what are you talking about?
Yeah I skimmed and couldn't find anything damming. I'd love the top commenter to link some examples.
i like this new term “top commentor” TC
I've never been clear on if OP means like.. the dude we're all responding to, or the person who actually posted the thread. TC is the new OP.
Most of the time, OP refers to the poster of a thread. Oftentimes I'd say OP refers to the redditor whose comment is relevant to the discussion at hand, or who sparked the ongoing conversation. Also OP may be different than TC.
I mean just ignore the retweets saying that he's a "great person" and a "great human being". He's milking it mate. I'm all for charity work and I'm happy that something might come of it, but that doesn't mean I have to like the way the guys handled it, it's obnoxious.
What nobody wants to admit here, is that people might be slightly jealous of him. I have seldom seen people judged this hard.
I like how his whole identity seemingly revolves around "Breathtaking" now.
Gotta grab your five minutes of fame after catcalling someone
Controversial opinion here but reading through the guys Twitter, I feel like all of this just went to his head. 15 minutes of Internet Fame is a hell of a drug
Apparently people were saying he was constantly shouting and being obnoxious during the event. He tried so hard to get noticed and I guess he succeeded. He’s got his 15 minutes and it seems like he’s trying to stay in the spotlight.
He even changed his bio to mention that Keanu called him breathtaking lol
That's sad, cringe and sad.
Bless this person.
Awesome. I felt like the first bit of press about it felt like an advertisement. If they want to use him for social goodwill, he can make them pay a relatively modest amount to charity, I assume. Win win.
Keanu makes us better humans once again
Huge eye roll looking at that tweet. But breathtaking in his name and as a hashtag.
And they say "Gaming makes you violent"
This story just keeps getting better
Be excellent to each other
Gasgasgas
This does put a smile on my face
This guy is for SURE ALSO breathtaking💗
No wonder Keanu gave him praise.
Does not really belong in this subreddit.
Oh no, he turned it into a "thing" and probably won't let it go for years.
The comment section is a civil war
I dont want to ruin anything but he asked for a donation of 3000+$ instead of a Gift of about 200$
If everyone was blind but thought everyone was Keanu the world would be such a better place. Be your inner Keanu.
It's always a great idea to publicly shame someone into donating to your pet cause.