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u/Luna_Wood 2d ago
Think about about how much more satisfying that is rather than buying your 10th Bugatti? This is a good person.
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u/iamawakebutnotwoke 2d ago
Keanu Reeves the same person. Two men everyone should look up to!
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u/antithero 2d ago
I heard Brad Pitt built houses in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the city.
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u/kenwongart 2d ago
Unfortunately the project was widely considered a disaster. “The vast majority of the recently constructed homes are riddled with construction-related problems that have led to mold, termites, rotting wood, flooding and other woes.”
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u/Aggravating-Method24 2d ago
I think, he's an actor not a construction company, he should be allowed to try and fail to build houses and still be praised for trying. Sure it's better to succeed but I'm still glad he tried.
The problems were likely in who he hired to do the work.
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u/tedflambe 2d ago
Yeah but Brad Pitt also got drunk on a plane and abused his wife and kids. So while he did try to do something good that failed, in this instance. I'm not sure he's the guy you want to be lifting up as someone to be praised.
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u/Aggravating-Method24 2d ago
I am praising the action, not the guy in general. Everyone is a mix of good and bad actions. Yes, shitty behaviour to his wife and kids, but that doesn't mean this wasn't a genuine effort to do something good.
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u/asylum_disciple 1d ago
Its almost as if people are multi-faceted, complex humans who aren't "100%" anything..
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u/Nicktendo 1d ago
If I learned anything from 2006 Best Picture Winner Crash, it was that people are complicated
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u/ac2cvn_71 2d ago
I came here to say that. Both men are national fucking treasures! And yeah, Bale is a Brit but I'll still claim him
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u/Arkavien 2d ago
It was the director of photography who repeatedly walked into the shot while bale was trying to perform some stressful intense scene. Apparently Bale had already pointed it out several times and asked him to stop doing it before the rant/people started filming it. He later apologized publicly and said it was inexcusable, calling himself a punk for doing it.
Not saying what he did was ok, the recording was like 4 minutes long of him just completely losing it on the guy....but I will say.....I have been that frustrated with a coworker before.
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u/unwantedposterboy 2d ago
I worked on set for a few years. If someone can't shut the fuck up and stay out of the way, they shouldn't even be there. It's already hard enough to coordinate all the different roles into unison. I saw the full video and the guy that got yelled at didn't give two fucks who he bothered. Not all clips include it, but I saw one where he was blabbing away to someone else while the others were trying to focus on getting shit done. No regard for how he was affecting anyone.
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u/DangerousLoner 1d ago
I saw that video and the guy reminded me of cocaine users at 3am. Just shut up!
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u/Wine_runner 2d ago edited 2d ago
So unless you're 100% perfect people shouldn't applaud the good things someone might do. What sort of a depressing world you must live in that building this village can't be appreciated.
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u/TurdFerguson747474 2d ago
No, it’s an excuse assholes use to not help society, they’d rather point out one of the worst moments of someone life instead of just saying good job dude.
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u/DeceitfulLittleB 2d ago
Its never ok to berate coworkers however the context makes it at least understandable. This dude who worked for the lighting department kept walking into scenes ruining multiple takes. You're an actor working 12-16 hours and giving it your all while an idiot fucks up your work. Regardless one single outburst 15 years ago shouldn't be held against someone forever.
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u/yooobuddd 2d ago
Idk, sometimes it's ok to berate coworkers. I'm a nurse and if someone repeatedly does the same dangerous shit over and over they will hear it
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u/King_LaQueefah 2d ago
He seems like a very hard working but difficult person who was a child star and has all the normal baggage which accompanies being so popular at a young age that you might not have the same growing and learning experiences as most people.
I think you can be a huge asshole and hot tempered and toxic but still be a great human being who does beautiful things like this. That's how I am and I have less of an excuse because I had a normal upbringing lol.
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u/CousinDerylHickson 2d ago
He does kind of mitigate it. Like still bad but he does say hes a good guy while berating his professionalism
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u/VapeRizzler 2d ago
People look at me like I’m crazy when I say if I have Elon musk money, I’d just rebuild nations. Build neighbourhood well below market price in my provinces. i can afford to take the “loss”. I’d also want to go to poorer countries and help rebuild them, give them all the great legal work protections we have here, sustainable whatever business offering the people proper wages/pensions we get here in the west with all the nice kings like time off and raises/overtime. Use my money and influence to push governments to doing the right thing, even if it takes bribes at least they’re doing the right thing.
People now have money, so that’s a perfectly opportunity to build dealerships, grocery stores, more housing like we have here, roads, infrastructure like clubs and a place people can spend their money/enjoy their lives like theatres or whatever. End of the day I would not only make insane money, but at the same time help thousands of people and be able to distribute said wealth for people. I can happily live with like 10 million in profits so the rest of the millions can go back into investing in said country.
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u/VaticRogue 2d ago
That’s a Bruce Wayne move right there
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u/PearlHarbor_420 2d ago
He's gotta source his orphan sidekicks from somewhere.
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u/Kapper-WA 2d ago
This guy should definitely play him in a movie.
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u/DecoherentDoc 2d ago
You think the guy from America Psycho, the bad guy from (the much beloved) "Thor: Love and Thunder" could play Batman!?! Get real.
(sooooooooooo much sarcasm, he was my favorite outside Adam West)
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u/HumongousBelly 2d ago
No. Bruce Wayne would’ve had an ipo to become the first trillionaire. All billionaires are the same.
This is christian bale. He’s a human being, a decent one at that, and not a soulless vampire parasite, unlike elflon skum
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u/666Apophis666 2d ago
This is the kinda stuff the ultra wealthy need to be doing instead of pdf island bs
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u/Linkyland 2d ago
Or like... collecting it to become the world's first trillionaire?
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u/bryanthebryan 2d ago
If I had to guess, musk also has a village for kids that aren’t his on some island somewhere…
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u/showmethemundy 1d ago
I think any billionaire that doesn't have a few projects like this going is mental and should be put in an asylum. Its not right in the head to have so much capability and still ignore those around you who might be struggling. Its a mental illness..
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u/ace-destrier 2d ago
$22m for a development like this seems like a small price relevant to useless development monstrosities elsewhere
Bezos makes that in half a day, if that long.
The accountant or wealth manager of any one of the 10 richest people in the world could pocket enough for, say, 5 of these villages and they wouldn’t even notice the money was gone.
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u/MandyWarHal 2d ago
Face it, they have ZERO compassion. If these filthy filthy rich .01% assholes had an ounce of love for humanity, they'd be solving problems for millions of people - Not CREATING them.
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u/yamanamawa 1d ago
If they had compassion they wouldn't be as rich as they are. To be that successful in a capitalist system requires exploitation at some level. Even if they treat their employees amazingly, they still have to source materials, and if they want to provide a service at a reasonable cost, those materials need to be sourced from somewhere that can do it cheaply. It's why so much stuff is made overseas.
If a company wanted to do every step of the process somewhere like the US, even disregarding the immense cost of setting up the facilities in the first place, workers would need to be paid the higher wages here, they'd need workplace insurance, there are stricter safety regulations, and it's just generally a lot pricier. Say a company wanted to sell a t-shirt. They would need to get the cotton, then turn that into thread, then weave it into cloth, and then sew it into a shirt. Then maybe add designs or something.
By the time it reached the consumer, the cost of that t-shirt would be unreasonable to most people, even if the quality is high. Why would you buy a $30-50 shirt when you can buy a 5-pack on Amazon for $20? Even if you want to support that kind of business, most people dont have the kind of money to justify spending like that for a basic t-shirt when a cheap, foreign made one does better.
So ultimately, the only reasonable choice for a company wanting to make good profits is to outsource, usually to countries that have low pay and lax labor laws, which leads to exploitation. If a business owner is bogged down by empathy then having a truly big, successful business is impossible. They're basically stuck with a smaller business because being moral often has a cost. The peiple who make billions do not care. I doubt they even really see people working in sweatshops as human. It's all numbers that they plug into their business equation to get other numbers out as profit
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u/pm-me-your-labradors 1d ago
He said, making an ultimately useless comment on the internet as he browses the internet…..
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u/Doun2Others10 2d ago
Bale is on the board. Leonardo DiCaprio also donated.
It’s called Together California
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u/Satianeev 2d ago
Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to rely on multi-millionaire/billionaire random generosity and taxed them so that projects like these were the norm, and not just for a lucky few.
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u/Hefty_Ad_3965 2d ago
Thats a beautiful dream, but if we taxed the rich actor millionaire at the rates you undoubtedly propose, that money would never actually get to the orphans.
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u/Miiyamoto 1d ago
If corruption is prevented at the same time, all the money can be used to help orphans as well as to carry out many other useful projects.
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u/Jlong4242 2d ago
Now that's a rich guy I'm cool with not paying taxes
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u/Saotik 2d ago
Charity is a failure of government.
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u/Fabulous_Ninja119 2d ago
Elon's stupid companies aren't worth 1/10th of what the stock market says. Even a modest selloff of his stock to use this fictional money would decimate his companies. Dude thinks he's a trillionaire, my ass
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u/_Im_Mike_fromCanmore 2d ago
And thus the system is a failure. If I need to pay property tax on the increased valuation of my property, the rich can pay tax in the “unrealized gains of their portfolio. Fuck em
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u/Suspicious_Sense1272 2d ago
This is awesome if it’s true.
Edit: and also if he isn’t involved with the island people.
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u/blueeyedkittens 2d ago
According to this post, he "planned" it for 16 years. No mention if its actually been built.
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u/TheBanishedBard 2d ago
If I ever won the lottery I would do the same thing and dump every dime of my winnings into it and cut myself a modest salary to play with the children, and kick the ass of every staffer and caregiver that gets lazy or complacent. That's my ideal life.
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u/Ki-Larah 2d ago
See, things like this are why I could never be a billionaire, I’d be setting up stuff like this!
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u/Sea-Hour-6063 2d ago
Meanwhile Elon Musk is tweeting shit on twitter.
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u/bistolegs 2d ago
Richest man I the world and his major contribution is a robot that undresses children..
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u/internal_l0gging 2d ago
I think what's crazy about this is that's not even a lot of money for some celebrities. I mean many have one or two home that equate to that much.
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u/K1ngk1ller71 2d ago
If only the world’s first trillionaire had similar aspirations.
Musk could become one of the most loved people in the planet almost overnight….
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u/MrStark1992 1d ago
I live close by where he is building this in Palmdale.. it's coming along can't wait to see it complete.
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u/GainfullyRetired 1d ago
OP thank you for posting that. I just submitted my volunteer application. Pushed to early retirement out off tech. I'd put in some time into how I could do something similar but on my scale. Not much progress beyond some basic business planning and hoping for a lottery win.
Actually TRIED to submit my application but got a useless error. Found an email and sent them a screen shot and "this is why you need me"
I hope i can find a way to help them.
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u/Dharma_code 2d ago
If Elon Musk did this with 5billion to put it into perspective
That's .45% of his salary
An American earning 55k a year would be equivalent to $250 dollars.
5 billion donation from Musk would be like that American buying a birthday gift for a wife or son ect.
Wild to think about.
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u/urbanek2525 2d ago
Smart guy. Make your life mean something. Such a contrast to the ultra-rich "Christians".
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u/rockstuffs 2d ago edited 2d ago
Who's going to run it? Who's going to make sure it runs smoothly, legally and cleanly?
Edit: why downvotes for real questions. If we care about kids, we should be asking these questions.
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u/Civil_Disgrace 2d ago
Professional foster parents according to this. I’ve heard something similar that it is to accommodate parents willing to take on siblings but didn’t have the room. Something like that. https://www.realtor.com/news/real-estate-summary/christian-bale-village-foster-siblings/
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u/rockstuffs 2d ago
I hope nothing but the best for them and hope they get can keep good, honest, well meaning foster parents involved. Imagine a community made up of care takers who care for each child equally. That's a literal village. 🖤
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u/rockstuffs 2d ago
I'm not saying there aren't any, I just want to know who, and how they're vetted.
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u/someLemonz 2d ago
you'll always find better answers on Google and literally just opinions on reddit.
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u/Deviantdefective 2d ago
Given the fact he's spent 22 million on it I think that's a moot point I have zero doubt he's font qualified professionals to deal with it all.
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u/Miiyamoto 1d ago
It's so typical how this will probably be celebrated mainly by Americans instead of considering that one could simply pay taxes so that the state could ensure that all children are as well off as possible.
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u/Rude_Parsnip306 2d ago
I've always wondered if it was true followed by being to lazy to bother looking it up. It's nice if it's true.
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u/Fiorina_Fury 2d ago
What a beautiful gesture for humanity. Honestly, I wish more people with hearts this kind came into wealth.
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u/InteractionCurious35 2d ago
In my county we just spent 22mil for 2 round abouts. To think what tax payer money could go for
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u/Talker54321 1d ago
We need more of this, on small and larger scales. Supportive housing to help folks who’ve faced hurdles and struggles.
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u/demo_lock 2d ago
Yup. Growing up we’d fantasize about being billionaires, and what we’d do with the money. All of us said we’d buy a bunch of shit for family and friends, but all of us also ended world hunger, ended wars, ended racism, cured cancer and addiction—and did good with it. These guys do NOTHING good for the world. They just take and take, with disregard to the future generations.
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u/OneUpAndOneDown 2d ago
Whyyyyy does it cost so much? Impossible for us ordinaries to do anything even vaguely like this.
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u/gawainsfo 2d ago
Now for the love of god, somebody tell Elon that ending homelessness in America and ending hunger worldwide would mean his name will be known by every human alive and everyone not yet alive, too.
And it would still leave him the richest that ever was.
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u/MyGruffaloCrumble 2d ago
Totally awesome. If there were facilities like this all over it would greatly increase the success of these kids who’ve had the toughest lives, and reduce homelessness by almost 50%.
Now for the rest… can’t really do anything about the tough love parents kicking their kids out for “lifestyle choices” or drugs, except maybe garnish their wages to pay for help for their kids.
Finally we need to do something to help people who are mentally ill get off the streets and either into a monitored living situation or institutionalized.
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u/Impossible_Ad_3909 2d ago
Sad though, in some many other states it could have been done so much quicker and less expensive.
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