Spencer is sooo amazing

When my father went into rehab for alcohol addiction the doctor met with my mother and told her that very often one addiction can be replaced with another, and for him it was cycling, it became an obsession with him and between that and the relapses back into drinking it finished the marriage. I guess an addictive personality doesn't care what it's addicted too

How is it an interesting point. People do things they like to do & are able versus doing things for the good of everyone else. Is that not just life in general. How much time do you spend on hobbies versus making the world a better place?

Look I'd prefer that man run than be responsible for any building work as he's no qualifications. Some things, like building schools, should be maybe left to professionals.

That doesn't smack of jealousy at all. Look I don't know the guy, don't know how smart he is but anything I've seen him on recently he's come across as ok. I mean he didn't have to bring down that sherpa's body from Everest for his family when he had gone to retrieve his brother, but he did. That's pretty good. And just because someone is rich, doesn't mean they're care free. Everyone has issues and struggles.

It was admirable what he did bringing down that body yes, but that and marathon running for charity is not much different to videoing yourself giving to beggars for thanks and likes whoring and building a profile, only on a bigger budget.

When herself tried to eject someone out of their seat on a flight and didn't get her way she became very well known, I'll give you that.

It's lucky we have psychic people to defend us from this feux charity stuff though :) hehehe.

People who have never got up off their ass to better the world in any way who can look at people who have done so - and look into their hearts and minds from a distance - and illuminate for the rest of us what their actual self serving motivations and agendas truly are. Imagine all the people we risk mistaking for being genuine - if Professor X's psychic X-Men were not among us and defend us from the clearly dangerous notion that there might be some genuine and altruistic people in the world.

To be honest though, I do not think I particularly care either way. I am more utilitarian on that level. If someone is genuinely doing something which makes the world a better place - directly by bringing money and attention and awareness to those who need it - and indirectly by then also inspiring people to get off the sofa and start getting after it themselves - then if their motivation is social media thanks whoring I genuinely couldn't care less. Give them their thanks.

The people who are going to moan about it seem to me to be often people who themselves have done nothing for anyone ever. :p Though I genuinely do not see how going out with a camera and filming yourself dropping coins in a hat - something any fat ass kid could do today with the phone they have their face permanently stuck into - is quite comparable with an achievement that may have taken months or even years of effort, energy, time, training, preparation, suffering and financial outlay. Yea SO similar :-p face palm

It's also often people who have never done a genuine thing themselves who seem to me to come out with moans like on this thread "Why did he use his energy to do good in THAT way when he could have done good in this OTHER way instead??". As if charity and altruism must be this cookie cutter thing that everyone must do it the same way or it's a waste. No - that area of humanity is made better by people doing it in different ways, with different voices, different agendas, and different ideas. Perhaps it is these keyboard moaners who are the ones actually thanks whoring. The next level of virtue signalling appears to be to mindlessly police other peoples virtues for them not being quite virtuous enough.

Some people set out to do charity directly. They fly off somewhere to help build a school or they go out manning soup trucks and much more. This is all great stuff. We do need people who do this.

Other people however monetise for charity, something they were probably going to do anyway. And that's just as useful and just as valid. For many people, marathoning one's way across a large desert would be a life goal anyway. Why not monetise that goal and benefit people directly (money) and indirectly (inspiration) in doing so? And again why is it so often people who themselves appear to have done nothing more than bang a keyboard ever - who actually care? :)

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The autonomy and free time that wealth affords him likely gets under people's skin, triggering the familiar "If I had that money, I could do that no problem" mentality. Jealousy aside, sometimes people just dislike the reminder that others live in a different reality, one they don’t have access to. It’s less about the person with wealth and more about the gap itself.