tst123@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoJeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez pledge $100 million for Maui wildfire reliefwww.msn.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down112
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkJeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez pledge $100 million for Maui wildfire reliefwww.msn.comtst123@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squarezephyrvs@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 year agoBillionaires also pledged to fund rebuilding Notre Dame in France and no one paid anything. Almost no one actually paid and it seems the press doesn’t care to see if anything has been paid since 2019: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-fire-update-big-donors-delay-fulfilling-pledges-to-rebuild-notre-dame/ Pledges are PR, nothing more.
Billionaires also pledged to fund rebuilding Notre Dame in France and no one paid anything. Almost no one actually paid and it seems the press doesn’t care to see if anything has been paid since 2019: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-fire-update-big-donors-delay-fulfilling-pledges-to-rebuild-notre-dame/
Pledges are PR, nothing more.