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The former first lady of Amazon is clearly a far more charitable person than her Scrooge-like ex-husband, Jeff Bezos.

MacKenzie Scott broke ties with all things Bezos in 2019, except for some of the money she walked away with after the divorce, including a magnificent $34 billion dollars worth of Amazon stock.

Since then she has donated a hefty percentage of that. Far more, in fact, than Bezos has in his lifetime.

She immediately established herself as an uber generous philanthropist, while Bezos joined the billionaire’s yacht party and zoomed to space in his phallic-shaped rocket.

Vanity Fair notes that in last June alone, MacKenzie handed out $2,74 billion to 286 different organisations.

More recently she also dished out a cool $133,5 million to Communities in Schools, a network of nonprofits that work in 2 900 “high-poverty” K-12 schools across America.

That brings her total giving to worthy causes since the divorce to at least $8,6 billion.

Cheapskate Bezos, on the other hand, has done hardly anything of the sort:

According to Forbes, while Scott has a net worth of roughly $46,7 billion and has given away approximately 18% of that, Jeff Bezos’s net worth clocks in at around $164,8 billion, of which he’s reportedly given away just $2,1 billion, or a measly 1%.

And while $2 billion is nothing to sniff at, it’s a pretty lame amount of money given Bezos’s [wealth].

We already know that Bezos is a bit of a sore loser, so he’s probably bleak that both Elon Musk and Bernard Arnault sit above him on Forbes’ real-time billionaire tracker.

And no, Jeff, the jobs you have provided for Amazon employees doesn’t give you a free pass.

Especially when we hear that many of them are basically skipping much-needed bathroom breaks out of fear “of being disciplined for idling and losing their jobs as a result”.

Worst of all, Bezos outright does not see his lack of charity as a problem, sincerely claiming during an interview that he couldn’t think of a better way to spend his glorious fortune than on his rocket ship company:

“The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel,” he told Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner.

“That is basically it.… I am currently liquidating about $1 billion a year of Amazon stock to fund Blue Origin. And I plan to continue to do that for a long time. Because you’re right, you’re not going to spend it on a second dinner out.”

…Other things Bezos has said about charitable giving include, “Our core business activities are probably the most important thing we do to contribute” and “I’m convinced that in many cases, for-profit models improve the world more than philanthropy models, if they can be made to work.”

If they work, my dude.

Here’s a video outlining more on the stark differences between the charitable efforts of McKenzie and Jeff:

[source:vanityfair]