Is the Charity of the Wealthy Just a Publicity Stunt?

[Marvelockg]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

apart from the few that does charity program just to chase clout or draw attention to themselves, people give not just because they have too much but basically because they have the nature of giving back to the society from the little, they have. the publicity aspect as a thing because we are in a digital era where people get motivated to join in a good act from the thing, they see other people doing. by helping people and publishing it, it has a way of encouraging others to join in that act and the complement that comes with the act of kindness can also go a long way to encourage the person to do more.

of cause, everyone desires attention and loves it when they are applauded, and the rich are not excluded. apart from the wealth gotten from public office, any other wealth that is generated through the individuals hard labor and effort should be utilized in any manner the person feels okay with. if you don't like the publicity, go hustle yours and carry out your own charitable project without letting anyone know about it.

[MArsland]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

What if the perception arises because of envy of other people's achievements, while they do it to motivate others that caring for others must always be embedded. The media spreads it in various ways, sometimes leading to positive opinions and some actually leading to negative opinions.
We cannot judge it with certainty because a person's goal can only be understood and comprehended by himself. We can only see it from the outside and when we conclude that it is just a formality, showing off, image, wanting to be noticed by the public and so on, it goes back to each person's judgment. Everyone has their own way of donating their wealth because being exposed to the media or not depends on their social status.

[franky1]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

most rich people doing charity is just a tax dodge, hardly any of the funds that go to charities related to the elites ever actually end up reaching any front line service that actually helps those in need/vulnerable

[Yucky]

Some wealthy people do charity events, go for charity on the street to attract social media attention, but some people do it genuinely so let's not generalize it.

Some people do it for public stunts especially in Afric when election is very close you see aspiring politicians eating with beggars on the street, visiting motherless baby home, all of this just to get the public favour. it's a really terrible thing to do but yes they do it and the poor being the poor will run after the charity whether it's for election purpose or not, they just need food and other palliatives the rich are willing to share to survive.

Also those that are not so rich don't have to despise these rich people doing this charity event, you just have to focus on your own wealth creation so you correct people by your own actions when you become rich.

[justdimin]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

most rich people doing charity is just a tax dodge, hardly any of the funds that go to charities related to the elites ever actually end up reaching any front line service that actually helps those in need/vulnerable

And they think the rich do it for the good of their heart lol. That is the weirdest part, people look at rich people who do stuff and think the rich people do ANYTHING that doesn't benefit them, I am sorry but even Bill Gates gets something out of it, doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy it, I am sure he does, but that dude replaced government with himself on his eyes basically, doing his own charity instead of paying taxes.

I can understand the need, because nobody trusts the government, so doing your own charity is cool, if given the option, I would do my own charity donation instead of paying taxes too, but that doesn't mean that I am going to. Hence, in the end, all rich people care about is themselves and their own opinions.

[boyptc]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

It's not all about the exposure. It's just another public stunt that they are enjoying from the main reason why most of the wealthy people are doing it.

Remember what's permanent? death and taxes.

And yeah, they're doing it for the latter. Taxes, to avoid bigger taxes, slashing bigger taxes on their end through donations, philanthropy works and charities.

[serjent05]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

Not all wealthy who donate to charity are after for popularity.  There wealthy people who donate anonumously, while other rich people sponsor events and stuff without making it public.

It is true that there are people who wants publicity, but isn't it the same for other social classes?

[Y3shot]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

Attention seeking people will always want to look good in the eyes of others. Doing an act of service for free for the camera is just an attention seeking behaviour. Although it's not exactly cheap as it has to do with finiancial and human efforts it's completely irrelevant to go all the way for such attention. People's opinions shouldn't be an important requirement for anybody but sadly many people won't even listen even when after advising them.  Good deeds should be done without expecting any thing in return whether it's from the receiver or generally other people you cross paths with.

[Bazzu]

Only these wealthy people are able to hold charity cause events, while poor ones may want it but unfortunately their finances are not capable either.

However, if ask if it’s just for publicity stunt, maybe for some especially for those who want to claim the limelight, but let’s not forget that there are still genuine and humble wealthy people, and all they want is really to help and share their blessings, not to pretend for the sake of public attention. These kind of people are actually real wealthy but fake ones only aim to deceive, not to help.

Sometimes such things will be done in order to gain publicity for them to be more famous, by holding charity events but not all are like that, it's just that they take advantage of the opportunity to further improve their careers in certain fields, to achieve what they want even though it sounds good enough, but not all are like that, there are still many rich people who are generous and give without being caught.

[Mate2237]

Even though there are people who are into charitable works for the purpose of media publicity and the attention that you made mention of but the fact is that generalizing it will be wrong of you, because there are people who have genuine affection when it comes to helping people who are less privileged in society infact I have seen wealthy people who does their charitable good works without any media coverage that is just to show you that they are genuinely concerned about helping people and not just for the purpose of getting attention

The essence of charity is to make sure that people who are has been privileged in society should go back to where they started from and give back to society, but unfortunately some persons especially the political class has turned it into a media show where they will use it to create news for their selfish intrest which suppose not to be so

[retreat]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

Apart from that, there is also another reason they are forced to do it, which is to disguise the origin of their money. Usually they will donate to a foundation that they themselves created or that has collaborated with them. They donate some money, then manipulate it, for example like honorarium, charity projects, etc. This method is very common for rich people to manipulate their wealth and avoid higher taxes, because usually charitable foundations are not so closely monitored, so they are free to do this.

[kotajikikox]

of cause, everyone desires attention and loves it when they are applauded, and the rich are not excluded. apart from the wealth gotten from public office, any other wealth that is generated through the individuals hard labor and effort should be utilized in any manner the person feels okay with.

You will notice that a lot of rich people do carry out charity events in such a way where they can enjoy, party and flaunt their wealth. An example is the met gala. Yes there is money being donated through that event but it just basically is a gathering of the rich people. If there wasn't any party or publicity involved, will the rich people actually donate money?

if you don't like the publicity, go hustle yours and carry out your own charitable project without letting anyone know about it.

The thing though is they need to have some publicity to get more people to donate to their charity project. The more people that is involved in the project, of course the better since there will be more money that will be raised.

[Cryptohygenic]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

It is agreeable that it is difficult to control wealthy statusco's which in anything a celebrity or wealthy one does is being ceremonial in the media but then, there are still wealthy people who are living a low key not to get their financial status made public.
Also talks about donation, there are still poor, average and the wealthy ones who makes charity donations anonymously which is fine difficult to leakage/expose themselves. While the pompous ones will always make themselves feel so relevant before the public.

[ancafe]

Apart from that, there is also another reason they are forced to do it, which is to disguise the origin of their money. Usually they will donate to a foundation that they themselves created or that has collaborated with them. They donate some money, then manipulate it, for example like honorarium, charity projects, etc. This method is very common for rich people to manipulate their wealth and avoid higher taxes, because usually charitable foundations are not so closely monitored, so they are free to do this.

Although there are many reasons related to charitable activities carried out by rich people, not all of them have the intentions as we discussed. In certain cases, I do not deny that there are rich people who try to manipulate their charitable activities to cover up the source of their income and generally this is done to trick existing rules and laws, but it is also not uncommon that in the end what they do is caught and processed legally.

If we look at it positively, there may be many rich people who do charitable activities based on their love and maybe they donate their wealth to help people in need. The assessment is from which angle we look at it and maybe there are two different sides to the activities they do on the basis of charity.

[Wexnident]

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I mean it's also a sort of publicity for them whenever they announce that they're donating to charity, so it's just a win win for them. If they really wanted to be helpful, they'd donate media or not. Maybe even more since charity is just helping the bottom, not pushing the bottom up. Usually takes government work to push up the bottom though but eh whatever. I reckon a great example of what I'm talking about is that boss who gave up his salary to give it out to his employees. Pretty sure he gave up a monthly million (or hundreds of thousands, idrk but it's a pretty sizeable amount) so that all of their employees can also get a pretty big monthly salary.

[Dave1]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

It's really hard to say where this guys are coming from, most of them have philanthropy or trying to help the poor. And I read a book saying that this super rich knows that if they help others, it will return ten folds to them.

So that's why many of them are donating to charities and they themselves has charitable institutions. So it's good for them to do that as obviously they have a lot of money and they know that they can bring it with them with they die so it's better to distribute it to their love ones and help others less unfortunately.

[Cookdata]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

Most often, they are publicity stunt. I have seen more of Bill gate health funds on the media than I have seen in real life and whenever he says he is fighting some diseases across the rural areas in some underdeveloped African countries, I just laughed because this things don't happen because they are target to suit their own agenda and not span across other places that need this help, and you wonder the areas they covered anytime they comes to the news to talk.

What some of them does is give an take, they make donations looks like they are trying to help people but you know what they do, collaboration with the government and gives some terms and conditions to have more sales of their products into their country, have all kind of benefits they can get to move their sales in the country in return for those generous offers. When this offers comes, the government inturn loot it and share it together with their friends and families while the wealthy person continues to milk the country, pathetic!

[fullhdpixel]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

As long as it's real charity, and not some scam, then I think they can do whatever they want. I have read some news, where people were using some fake charities to a way to tax evade their income, that is of course terrible and if they are doing that then we are not going to end up with much.

This is why I believe that if we can make this work, then we are going to end up with something real, a real charity, then it's okay to me. Whatever their reason is, if they are really helping the world, then it's a good thing, sure they are evading tax that way, but they are at least doing some good in the world and when I look at it now, I think I decided that it's a good thing, no matter how small or what their intentions were.

[CageMabok]

Sometimes such things will be done in order to gain publicity for them to be more famous, by holding charity events but not all are like that, it's just that they take advantage of the opportunity to further improve their careers in certain fields, to achieve what they want even though it sounds good enough, but not all are like that, there are still many rich people who are generous and give without being caught.

It all also depends on the initial intention and the ultimate goal of the people who do it because usually rich people who want to do things like that in public are because they have the hope of being known by many people. In fact, donating without being known by many people is also a very commendable job in the eyes of the public even though only a few know about it, but it still has a fairly good value for the people who donate it.

[iBaba]

Even the wealthy can't escape their craving for attention, and charity is their most "cost-effective" tool. After all, a donation leads to endless media exposure, and their public image skyrockets. On the other hand, it is precisely because of these celebrity stunts that the public’s focus is drawn to distant social issues.

Not all wealthy who donate to charity are after for popularity.  There wealthy people who donate anonumously, while other rich people sponsor events and stuff without making it public.

It is true that there are people who wants publicity, but isn't it the same for other social classes?

Absolutely. Not all rich people are making donations for the sake of publicity and those who donate money for publicity sake are not necessarily rich people, even the poor individuals display their donations for the sake of hypes. In the end, what matters most is an individual's intention towards their actions. What you have in mind, which is why some people will make donations and end up not getting any rewards out of it.

As a person, I wish to see myself becoming more charitable for the betterment of my home, community and country at large. But we need to know that charity is more of a spiritual thing and requires purest part of one's heart to carry out charity activities, so you don't end up engaging in charity for the purpose of taking advantage of the beneficiaries or making double profits out of it.