For one, if she “anonymously” donates to charities, how would anyone ever attribute any donations to her??
For another, as a sibling comment points out, AOC can have a much greater impact by influencing policies that help the people than through charitable donations, which, let’s face it, are just a bandaid on the structural issues that lead to such wealth inequality. Making something one’s professional goal when in a position of influence is much more impactful than optional activities on the side like charitable donations.
Jesus can’t believe I have to white-knight Altman here, but can you point a single video or interview where any of the AI CEOs have been “laughing about how he is going to use his tech to ruin peoples lives.”
This is the exact kind of poisonous, plausible-sounding but false and inflammatory rhetoric that is escalating things.
The Cato author rebutted that article, and he and CIS traded rebuttals until this post, where the Cato author backs his point up with copious FOIA data. There seems to have been no further follow-up, so this could be the last word on that particular exchange: