Trae Young

[OUReality]

well YOU may think the impact is whatever but it's not a matter of what YOU think. It's a matter of what they think. Unless you're merely pointing to the good feelings Trae gets from donating money. I've been working with the poor and homeless and mentally infirm for nearly 3 decades and after a ton of 341 bankruptcy hearings and thousands of criminal cases I can tell you that most of them have neither the time nor the inclination to be worried about their credit score. As I intimated earlier this effort is really just some window dressing that actually helps the secondary creditors more than anyone else. But you're welcome to think whatever you like. I just prefer the truth myself.

Exactly, it matters what the recipients think. Do you think the people who had their debt cleared had any relief/joy/gratitude because their debt was paid off?

 

[Eielson]

calm down dude.

This donation is a good thing.
But it is the equivelent of a teacher in Oklahoma donating $50.

The biggest positive of this is that it raises awareness to the ridiculousness of health care costs in the US and that paying down debt like this is an option for charitable contributions

How often do you donate $50?

 

[WaymanFan]

I read this morning where Jeff Bezos donated $1 million of Australian currency ($600-700K) to their wildfire relief. He got completely lambasted for his stinginess. I couldn’t help but think of this thread. I think what both he and Trae did were very generous since neither was under any obligation to help. That said, the late George Steinbrenner was once asked during his one-year suspension from baseball why he didn’t publicize his generous charity givings. His reply? “My father once told me that if you do something good for somebody and more than three people know about it, then you did it for the wrong reasons.”

 

[sheepdogs1]

I read this morning where Jeff Bezos donated $1 million of Australian currency ($600-700K) to their wildfire relief. He got completely lambasted for his stinginess. I couldn’t help but think of this thread. I think what both he and Trae did were very generous since neither was under any obligation to help. That said, the late George Steinbrenner was once asked during his one-year suspension from baseball why he didn’t publicize his generous charity givings. His reply? “My father once told me that if you do something good for somebody and more than three people know about it, then you did it for the wrong reasons.”

How true.