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Why aren’t other billionaires like McKenzie Scott in using their wealth to change the world for good?

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The title of the article is taken from a sentence that I underlined in a post titled: Seeding is ceding. In the post pandemic world, that has left the chasm between the rich and the poor greater than ever, with the rich accumulating more than they would ever need in this lifetime or the very next, one billionaire, with far more emotional intelligence than the rest of the billionaire class put together, is bucking the trend.

McKenzie Scott is her name.

To her, seeding in humanity means ceding her material wealth.

While her ex husband made the headlines recently with his acquisition of a $500 million yacht and his plans to go to space in July, this phenomenal human being has been working overtime to address the more salient and polarizing issues of our time.

J.K. Rowling, another fabulously wealthy woman, the author of the wildly successful, Harry Potter books, lost her billionaire status, owing to the level of her philanthropic commitments.

Seeing the extraordinary degree of engagement that these exceptional women have undertaken to giving their hard earned money away, one forced to ask: