Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on I Heart Radio.

There was a story this week about a YouTube personality named Mr Beast building a 100 water wells across Africa.

These wells will deliver clean drinking water to half a million people who need it.

And because it's 2023 and because the internet exists people are mad about it.

They're mad because there already are charities that build wells in Africa and Mr Beast did it more successfully than they have.

I mean, how dare he cut off their grift and stop a bunch of people getting paid on the way

to building that well?

They're also mad because his success makes the Kenyan government, for example, look bad,

which listen, they should look bad, they do look bad. This internet personality, Taylor

Lorenz, says Mr. Beast is monetizing kindness because

he does these good deeds and then puts them on the internet and people watch it and that makes

him rich.

Meanwhile, Taylor and much of the media monetizes all kinds of

horrible stuff. Taylor dox us people she doesn't like and still thinks she's the good guy.

And media in general, I mean monetizes creating strife between us and so much more.

I'll take Mr Beast monetizing of good deeds any day. Thanks. This isn't the first time Mr Beast has hit some controversy in this way. In fact, he was kind of

of ready for it this time saying, I know I'm going to get cancelled, but I'm building these wells in Africa. A few months ago, he paid for surgery

for a number of blind people to be able to see again.

And this was called ABLEST, like how do you even know

that blind people want to see again, Mr. Beast, you terrible

person?

It's all absurd.

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