MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism
It&#x27;s not altruism if it&#x27;s your source of income. Sorry but I don&#x27;t buy this bs. He&#x27;s doing it to generate income, that&#x27;s all. Altruism is &quot;unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others&quot; but we have quite the opposite here - a selfish way of milking poor people for emotions in order to generate income. Real altruism is hard and done only by a few. Literally EVERY man&#x2F;woman&#x2F;child on this planet will say yes to receiving millions of dollars annually with the sole condition that they have to let go some part of it. The money he spends are just fuel for a marketing engine.<p>While I see he seems like a nice guy overall, his actions do more good than harm. His impact is very low, his &quot;philanthropy&quot; is localised down to the individual level and his impact is absolutely none on the actual problems that people who he targets face. The more negative side of this is that he inspires the next generations to only go by extreme things on Youtube and other social media platforms and these extreme things are, more often than not, on the negative side (stupid and dangerous pranks, throwing stuff at people from 20th floor etc).<p>He chose this path because his viewers were probably reacting to it the most. I&#x27;m not a hater but I feel like the real altruistic people doing good stuff on a much grander scheme don&#x27;t get any recognition at all while this money making business man selling snake oil to children is getting everything from the table.<p>Despite throwing millions and millions, his impact is absolutely ZERO. I find it quite predatory.