Blue Sky Limousine

I was thinking that there are a bunch of rich people out there who could possibly make a difference by giving most of their funds to efficient, useful causes and organizations.

But then I imagined a negative version of the scenario. Negative and perhaps common sense.

Say Angelina Jolie decides to be good to mankind, and give away everything she owns, all her millions of dollars, in an effort to start and spread a campaign under which every rich person does the same.

This isn’t just giving money to people who’ll waste it. It’s the systematic reorganization of monetary funds in a way that will hopefully benefit all of us. The groups that are working to solve problems and producing results will get the most funding.

So Jolie becomes poor, in the hopes that other rich people will help like she did.

But they don’t. They don’t believe it will work, and in thinking that way, cause her program to fail. She becomes a regular person, and people treat her rudely.

Bleak. I could go into more detail, but I get the feeling that doing so would serve no purpose other than painting a poorer picture of humanity.

Or would it be accurate?

No, I have faith in people. We can work together, it just takes certain circumstances.