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Originally Posted by left of center
He cares enough to publicly moan about it so that someone else can fix it. Because as a rich person, he can't do anything about it. Nor should he, since the rich don't have any obligation to the society that made them rich to begin with.
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You are right. He has no obligation to do anything like anyone else. However, when he publicly makes comments about it and doesn't do shit about it except comment, he kind of gets a little less sympathy from me. He is a human like everyone else but he also has the power to help. There are organizations in this city with success in breaking the chain of violence, and success in getting those people on more solid footing as far as jobs go. The guy invests $50M on separating the running from the biking paths on the lakefront for a few miles. He spends about a half a billion dollars on real estate in NYC, Miami, London, and Chicago of late......but he can't do shit to infuse any cash into any program with current success. I made a donation of a few thousand dollars lately to these which seems to be more than KG. I like the guy, but he's acting like a lover because he actually does have the ability to help and at a small relative cost to his own net worth.
As the founder of a very successful business, he should understand that all of this is connected and helps or hurts his actual business. He even said it himself as he claimed it was harder to recruit people to Chicago now. Which by the way, he's probably referring to very senior executives because I'm sorry, KG is not personally getting involved with hiring more "normal" employees. They probably have a much easier time recruiting the majority of their "normal" positions to the Chicago area.
I think the guy likes/loves Chicago but if he wants to stay and complains about the violence without doing anything....while spending millions instead to separate bike paths from running paths....well, sorry to say but he's not very smart. All of this actually affects his recruiting, spending, etc but he just sits there and doesn't do shit even with existing orgs that have current success in helping to reduce violence among some people.
It's clear that all he wants to do is make political statements and is no different from politicians who use various groups of people as examples but doesn't actually take action.
Some of the points are more than valid, but I think these people need to start acting more like adults who realize they actually have some power to start changing some things.
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