JAY-Z Sent $40,000 Rolex Watches as VIP Passes to His Shawn Carter Foundation Gala

[ellumination]

JAY-Z, "hip-hop’s first billionaire," spared no expense when it came to inviting VIP guests to his inaugural Shawn Carter Foundation Gala. Instead of standard VIP passes, Jay-Z sent Rolex watches to his special guests.

Jay Z sent Meek Mill and Swizz Beatz's Rolex watches as VIP passes: https://t.co/6jMuVcuzHC pic.twitter.com/2XSFDYNmB8
- Complex

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[sadmagikarp]

https://www.gq.com/story/eat-the-rich-digital-generation

[trancexperiment]

I’m SO glad younger generations are becoming more and more critical of billionaires/multimillionaire types rather than hold them on pedestals as aspirational figures like before. Accountability is everything right now, and millennials are tired of suffering in debt and low wages.

[sadmagikarp]

We are witnessing the unraveling of one of the great pretensions of our age.

All along, we were told that these billionaires really cared about equality and justice above all. Bill Gates was trotted out as the example of choice when others behaved more dubiously.
- Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) November 6, 2019

[bellwetherr]

LOL lets eat bill first tbh

[unintentionalty]

Citations Needed had a double episode about his philanthropy a year or so ago that's absolutely worth checking out

[bellwetherr]

ty for the rec!

[xtinkerbellax]

I see people throw his name around as an example of a celebrity activist but like, you can not be this much of a wealth hoarder/capitalist and an activist sorry.

[sestiere]

remember when he made merch off the occupy Wall Street movement lol

[xtinkerbellax]

That's the first thing that still comes to mind when people mention him tbh

[analievelyn]

He would have over $6 billion left over, which is about what the average American would earn if they worked for 95,000 years https://t.co/k1gcCw26Cy
- Post-Culture Review (@PostCultRev) November 6, 2019

[warmsake]

How long would it take to spend six billion dollars is what I want to know

[azaelers]

Someone actually did the math. TL;DR, not in 300 years (if he were immortal).

Earlier today Bill Gates in an interview said he doesn't like Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax because he thinks he will have to pay "$100 billion" and he will have to do "a little math"(?).

That sounded wrong, so I did the math.

Text version: https://t.co/4oeRFHW2Jx pic.twitter.com/jTmdMYskst
- mcc (@mcclure111) November 7, 2019

Edit: embedded tweet

[euraylie]

It's so hard to live on $6 billion tho....jfc