“Political Activism” - Bezos' Ex-Wife Has Given $26.3 Billion to Charity

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
This MacKenzie Scott, $26 billion, she's given to charity after her divorce. She left Bezos, they got a divorce. I think she ended up marrying a school teacher. I don't know if that even worked out. I don't think they're together anymore. But she ended up giving $26 billion, I don't know if you guys have seen this or not, if you wanna pull up the list for me to read this to you, $26 billion of money that was given to charity. And Elon Musk responded to this. He had a problem with this. Elon Musk said on MacKenzie giving away the $26 billion of her fortune, sadly, it makes the world a worse place. Why? Because of where the money went to. So now, do you have that list? There's a tweet that breaks down exactly where the money went to. Maybe it's in here. If it's not, you may wanna look for that.
So MacKenzie, after all that she's given away more than $26 billion the past few years of thousands of organizations through her foundation, yield giving, while many of her recipients had never received a donation of that side and many have called them life-changing gifts. Not everyone sees her work in the same way. Elon Musk, who recently became the world's first trillionaire, thinks Scott's given is actually making the world worse off. On June 27th, Puberty, a major viral media and social news brand, posted on X that Scott's giving $26.3 billion in donations has made her one of the biggest individual donors in history, the ex-wife of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, mega donor. Then an account with 22,500 followers with the name of Friendly Officer, this is Yahoo Finance, whose bio describes as heterosexual alpha male replied to Puberty Post about Scott saying, unfortunately, she's spending it making the world a worse place. Then Musk responded agreeing with the statement sadly, yes, Musk is fresh off losing his history making trillionaire status and is still comfortably the world's most richest man in the world. He's been outspoken about how supposedly hard philanthropic giving is after securing his trillion out of pay package from Tesla in late 2025 He said, philanthropy is difficult.
I agree with love of humanity, and I think we should try to do things that help our fellow human beings. He told in an interview, he says, but it's very hard. He explained that he thinks it's simply challenging to give away money well. The biggest challenge I find with my foundation is trying to give away money in a way that is truly beneficial to people. It's very easy to give money away to get appearance of goodness. It is very difficult to give money away for the reality of goodness. Very difficult. Very good breakdown. Tom, your thoughts on the story?

**Pat** (2:29)
Well, I completely agree with that.
You know my giving. I find it very, very difficult to ensure that the dollars go where they say.
I mean, right now, there are, and I can show you the watch lists, there are things out there where they're cautioning people about organizations that really aren't helping Venezuela.
And I'm going back and forth on the neck. Or Guy said, I'm trying to help my grandmother. Do you know any of the relief agencies? Do you guys trust any of them? My family can't get to her. We can't fly to her. And we want to somehow get relief to her. But we've done research and we can't find the good agencies or someone doing it. We've been warned off of the ones we found. So there is a perfect example. Now take the organized crime of charities where you can find these charity watch groups, Pat, that find out that 80% of a donation gets tied up in administration and running in the marketing of the charity, and 20 cents on the dollar actually gets to save the whales. You know, it's horrible. And so what I look at from what Elon Musk just said, the appearance of goodness is easy. Go to a dinner, stand in front of a logo sheet, and then take your picture. But getting actual goodness to help people that are truly in need that you wanted to help them with something is very, very, very difficult. I mean, even Oprah, Oprah tried to do the whole school in Africa and she was, no one wants to talk about it, but she was kind of not as sharp about how it was done. And there were people there that kind of took advantage of the situation and the school went broke. It didn't work. You see this? Yeah, the school didn't work. So you even have someone like Oprah who maybe really wanted to do something for a girl's school or whatever it was in Africa and then the whole thing falls on its head.