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There's something off about doing it for profit though. And there's plenty of reporting out there that shows his philanthropy isn't all it's cracked up to be in many cases.

It's also silly to imply that simply doing some philanthropy somehow washes out anything bad you might have done. Often philanthropy is precisely a PR exercise to distract from that stuff.



idk what the ground truth is but what we are talking about here is called "fruit from the poisoned tree" in the field of ethics. This means you get a fruit "good thing" but it was pick from the poison tree "bad thing". And the ethical principle is that's not ethical, because bad thing




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