Thread by @RoadsideMum

Gonna get in on the #MrBeast debate. (YouTube influencer). He paid for 1000 people to get cataract surgery and the commentary is all about how "yeah but he's making bank off the exposure".

Yes mate. He is. Perfect good and perfect bad don't exist. But 1000 people can see now.

Good: people got operations they needed.
Bad: He did well off it.

Where has the money come from? Public donations? No, it's corporations. So essentially he's taken advertising revenues paid via YouTube and made that into healthcare for those in need...

He's influential to children and young people and what's his product? Generosity. He's selling acts of kindness as a message & lifestyle.

Yes please. Please sell children the idea being kind is cool. I want you to do that. That's fine with me. Please influence all the kids...

Every single day corporations take money that's meant for the public good, like from healthcare and school lunch provision, and squirrel it away from the vulnerable into shareholder profits.

He's doing the opposite. He's taken corporate money and made it into public services...

He's got a nice lifestyle out of it and that's not inherently bad. It's all about who pays. Advertisers/YouTube pay. This isn't money that would ever have gone to assist people or to plug gaps in provision else.

And that's why #MrBeast is not in fact a massive shit.

Let's not forget that Martin Lewis, financial guru and champion of the British working class, is a very rich man. Where's the money from? The media. How did it happen? He helped millions of people have a better relationship with money.

This is no different. Net positive.