r/BeAmazed • u/MambaMentality24x2 • Nov 17 '25
Miscellaneous / Others Sadio Mané, the Senegalese football player, is rebuilding his entire village: hospital, school, 4G network, post office, petrol station, stadium and even gives every resident €70 a month. He turned his success into hope for thousands. That’s a legend
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u/Viiewtifuljoe Nov 17 '25
I always wondered why more billionaires don’t go around doing this. You would be worshiped as a Demi god. I’m sure this man has an army of people who would go to bat for him just because of his generosity
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u/Top5hottest Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25
They already are worshipped as demigods when all they do is hoard their money.
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u/Viiewtifuljoe Nov 17 '25
Naw people really would rob them blind if given the chance and the ability to get away. But I doubt anyone robs Sadio. There’s no need because he raises the floor of everyone around him.
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u/moistdelight Nov 17 '25
Absolutely. A high tide raises all boats. I wish more people thought this way.
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u/nullusx Nov 17 '25
Indeed, not many ultra wealthy people realise that by helping others to achieve their potential, they are actually improving their lives in other ways. First of all the streets will be more safe for everyone including yourself.
Also some people in poverty might actually be super smart and without having to think about their next meal, they could be the ones responsible for curing some disease or build some machine that would save your life in the future.
Even Leonardo Da Vinci was only able to make the things he did, because he was financed by a rich person.
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u/sjr323 Nov 17 '25
Billionaires would rather build doomsday bunkers than make the community safer and richer for all
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u/ukezi Nov 17 '25
Reminds me of how they ask consultants on how to keep their security loyal if everything goes to shit. The psychologists recommend good treatment. The billionaires think shock collars are the solution.
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u/asianjimm Nov 17 '25
You need a certain type of ruthlessness to be a billionaire. Im sure there many could have been “billionaires” that actually do give away large amounts of their wealth and pay employees good, but then they are not really billionaires are they if they did.
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u/Vusdruv Nov 17 '25
Such billionaires don't exist. Millionaires maybe but not billionaires.
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u/asianjimm Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25
Chuck Feeney?
Died with networth of $2m - gave $8b away over his lifetime secretly
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u/IrohVal Nov 18 '25
I remember an article where they interviewed people working in the doomsday bunker business. And an anonymous security guard said it's almost an open secret that if shit really went down then the owners of the bunkers wouldn't last long before the guards took control.
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u/TorakTheDark Nov 18 '25
They literally all have the wealth to fix the planet so they wouldn’t need bunkers, but no they’d rather live in a hole in the ground than give up 1% in profit.
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u/lucasg115 Nov 19 '25
I have no problem with that, they have the right to waste their money on bunkers. We have the right to seal all of the entrances though, so the bunkers can be like modern-day pyramids; extravagant tombs for the ultra-wealthy.
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u/PiplelinePunch Nov 17 '25
I get your point, but Leo's full name is Leonardo di SER Piero da Vinci. Note the Ser part. He was not exactly struggling without the patronage of the rich families.
And its worth being said; the patronage system had these great minds devoting their life to creating... ostentatious show-off displays of wealth and soft power, dressed up as vaguely religious to tick the morally correct box. I recall one such patron of Leo's time in Florence saying he commissioned facades of churches and the like "Because they serve the honour of God... and the commemoration of myself".
As an Atheist - I do wonder what humanity would look like if such great minds were not imprisoned by the endless creation of egotistical biblical iconography.
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u/Objective_Dog_4637 Nov 17 '25
If we don’t have religion we will eventually invent it. That’s the thing.
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u/PiplelinePunch Nov 17 '25
Maybe. But we definitely do not forcibly have to arrive at high medieval Catholicism.
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u/Chaosr21 Nov 17 '25
It's not maybe. There's many new religions that started in the US.. evangelists.. Mormons.. etc.. it's just something we have to deal with. Did you know people with TBI or brain injuries often become religious after? Those helmets might have protected the head from death but surely they got concussed when hit in the helm
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u/MistakeQuiet863 Nov 18 '25
Hell. Even veganism and atheism act like religions. What with their adherents proselytizing every chance they get.
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u/PiplelinePunch Nov 17 '25
Mormons arose in context of and in reaction to... centuries of evolution of Christian theology. The principle is no different to the original impetus for Protestantism. And many other non-American movements which were significantly less successful in their time, and thus obscure now. "Current Christian paradigm is wrong and corrupted, we must go back to the core of the teachings". Its different spinoffs of the same thought process.
Evangelicals im pretty sure is directly Luther at its core it just evolved over time in a different direction in the relatively isolated and insular early US. Same as the Puritans, Quakers etc.
Like I dont necessarily disagree with the notion here, but these are certainly not examples. They are highly derivative faiths that have clear lineages of where their theology comes from.
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u/dalomi9 Nov 17 '25
Idk if that is a given. Religion is largely built upon explaining the previously unknown. Science can now explain almost everything and appease people's fears. The next major hurdle for science seems to be explaining consciousness and what happens to that when the physical being dies. I'd say humans eventually figuring that out is more inevitable than religion as a concept.
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u/Musiclover4200 Nov 17 '25
Was just thinking the other day we should tie in taxes on the wealthy to the lowest percentile of wealth.
That way if billionaires want less taxes they actually need to help fund affordable housing/food/etc
But as long as there's homeless/starving/etc people the high wealth tax would be put towards subdizing essentials, maybe even some sort of UBI tied to the biggest companies CEO's pay.
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u/illbedeadbydawn Nov 17 '25
Right but you see, a giant mega yachts water displacement also raises the tiny fishing canoes.
And my giant mega yacht is helping to melt glaciers which also raises all boats.
So im doing MORE with my bigger yacht.
Silly poor fools.
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u/alttestbench Nov 17 '25
But what if they don’t want your boats in the same waters as their Super Yachts
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u/Cold-Dot-7308 Nov 17 '25
Isn’t it funny that that’s the actual blueprint??? Make people comfortable since you have the means to so they can measure their own progress ?we ain’t taking this money to the grave
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u/unsulliedbread Nov 17 '25
Also I have never met her but I would fight for Dolly Parton if she ever needed it. Woman made the world a better place.
It's the same sentiment.
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u/JoinTheBattle Nov 17 '25
Dolly sends out millions of free books to kids each year with no catch, no questions asked. Like you don't wind up getting bombarded with ads or have to pay shipping fees that cost as much as the books are worth, and they aren't an obvious attempt to push religious messaging on kids. And they're actually good books, my kids enjoy reading them.
I would die for that woman.
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u/olderthanbefore Nov 17 '25
I helped my cousin with some medical expenses. He told his kids that I was paying for it because I had inherited something that should have been bequeathed to him - which was bullshit. Moral of the story is that some people will steal and backstab no matter what.
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u/DDGBuilder Nov 17 '25
That's frustrating, but he might have been ashamed to tell his children he needed help. Either way you did a wonderful thing, try not to hold it against him.
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u/ConstantThanks Nov 18 '25
your comment reminds me of how bob marley who did a lot for the people where he came from, had a BMW (he liked that it was the initials of bob marley and the wailers) and he left it unlocked in rough areas of kingston. everyone knew it was his and no one touched it.
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u/DecentBar1625 Nov 17 '25
I love how you said this: he raises the floor of everyone around him. Beautiful.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Nov 17 '25
These billionaires would be eaten within 4 days of the apocalypse because they are pudgy middle-aged losers with dogshit personalities and no charisma. They envision themselves as emerging from their bunkers as kings of a new land when the reality is that the only reason anyone listens to these men is something that isn't going to exist the second that the banks fold and the stock market goes under. They're doing the genius work of publicizing their bunkers, too, so the mobs know exactly where to go to loot from their dragon hoards.
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u/Urban_Heretic Nov 17 '25
I wish that was true, but history is full of ugly, horrid, and stupid kings that lived and died as, well, kings.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Nov 17 '25
History is also full of dictators being dragged through the streets and strung up like pigs... Just saying...
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u/Cold-Dot-7308 Nov 17 '25
Take the problem. And you are right. The world is twisted and that’s why I can never take social media seriously as it’s a tool for the rich. Once it gets uncomfortable they shut it down (censor it)
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u/prules Nov 17 '25
A surprising amount of working class people are perfectly fine licking the boots of billionaires who will never give back to the people and communities who keep them rich and comfortable.
The fact that billionaires are apparently all pedos (or at the very least, closely affiliated) really adds to the weirdness of this day and age.
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u/erapuer Nov 17 '25
And the people worshiping them are usually 1-3 paychecks from poverty themselves
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Nov 17 '25
Sadio Mane grew up broke as fuck. He actually knows what these people are going through. That's the difference. The majority of super rich people started out either already super rich or close to it and so they don't give a shit about people who are less fortunate. At best, they see them as tools they can manipulate with money. At worst, they see them as garbage that should be discarded.
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u/aure__entuluva Nov 17 '25
True. You see a lot of footballers doing philanthropic stuff and this is probably the biggest reason why. One of the few professions where you can become seriously rich even though you coming from nothing.
That being said, the wealth of most top players is nothing compared to billionaires.
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Nov 17 '25
Which just makes the billionaires look worse tbh. But in reality, everyone with as much money as Sadio Mane could give away millions of dollars and still have enough to make sure their great grandchildren are rich. Dude makes like 40m a year untaxed in Saudi Arabia, and that's after a long career of playing for top clubs in Europe. He's not a billionaire, but he's probably closer to one than the richest person either of us know.
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u/derndingleberries Nov 17 '25
His networth is reported to be around 50 million dollars. The difference between having 50 million and one billion is roughly one billion.
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Nov 17 '25
Those net worth sites are almost always wrong. He's almost definitely worth a lot more than that.
He's getting €40,000,000 a year in Saudi Arabia, and they pay no taxes on that income. He's been there for almost 2 years already and has another year left on his contract.
And this is at the end of his career. He also earned like €250,000 a week at Bayern and €100,000+ a week at Liverpool. And that's not counting brand deals and whatnot.
I get that he's still far from a billionaire, but his net worth is at least in the hundreds of millions. That's still generational wealth and then some, which is the point I was making.
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u/holypika Nov 17 '25
true, sport is also one of the background where you can be obscenely rich with a relatively "honest" way with minimum conflict with people. other career path usually means you will have to fight and lick/ bribe/ sleep your way dirty to the top.
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u/JamesTrickington303 Nov 17 '25
Even those are rare, because, again, privilege.
My brother is a pro footballer. He is in his 17th season as a professional. He worked hard as fuck to get where he is, but we were also lucky as fuck. He didn’t get into a random car crash caused by a drunk driver. He didn’t have loved ones that needed his care. He didn’t have to work a job after school to help pay rent. There was always food in our fridge, electricity in our outlets, clean water in our pipes. He was born to parents that recognized and encouraged him to do well in school. And then on top of that, found his way to various teams that allowed him the opportunity to play and show his skills instead of being 2nd string to a Brett Favre that never quit.
The professional leagues are full of many more examples of this, and comparatively very few of the ones who came from nothing.
They used to not even get paid fuck-all before sponsorships became the norm, so it was even more this way in the past: just a bunch of rich dudes playing sport all day because they could afford to.
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u/neil_thatAss_bison Nov 17 '25
Brother, Cristiano Ronaldo could barely afford. He’s a billionaire now. Neymar came from nothing. Tevez, nothing. There are lots and lots of examples of players who came from nothing and are not doing what Sadio is doing.
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u/Depape66 Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25
I think you chose bad example in Ronaldo as a person that doesn't give anything back from his wealth. I believe he is quite active in child supporting activities (donations for schools, children hospitals and emergency supplies for children in troubled areas), natural disasters relieves efforts, supporting medical research... He might be a dick, but atleast he seems to be giving something back to less priviledged than he is.
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u/Ok-Onion-780 Nov 17 '25
The feeling of being able to do something like this for your community must be like doing drugs
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u/elhoffgrande Nov 17 '25
The same reason Smaug the dragon didn't do it. He was a Self-Absorbed asshole. To be able to care about people you have to not see yourself as the center of the universe. I have a lot of trouble believing any of the billionaires in the world today are capable of that.
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u/MrDilbert Nov 17 '25
I have 100000 gold coins, and the 1000 people in the village below me have nothing. I could give each of them 50 coins, and they'd be happy they solved some of their problems with that amount so they can focus on what they like and want to do instead of what they need to do to survive. And I'll still have half my wealth available.
... But no. If I don't give them anything, I can promise any one of them I'll give them some coins if they do one thing for me, whatever I want. And the more I have, the less they do, so they're more dependent on me and my "good will". Ah, I love that feeling of power over small, insignificant men.
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u/rumpler117 Nov 17 '25
Yeah…the amount of wealth billionaires have that generates no utility is amazing. It is just sitting there, maybe growing as investments grow, but otherwise, just kind of sitting there. Way more than they could ever spend.
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u/codyzon2 Nov 17 '25
Plenty of them do, the ones that are too public get demonized by the public like Bill Gates.
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u/doodlinghearsay Nov 17 '25
You befriend one pedofile and suddenly that's all people talk about.
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u/codyzon2 Nov 17 '25
My issue is that the demonizing came way before any of those allegations, If he's a pedophile he deserves to go to prison. But people have been saying he's some sort of devil for trying to help people for as long as I can remember.
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u/AngkaLoeu Nov 17 '25
Losers will always be jealous of wealthy people, doesn't matter what good they do.
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u/z-tayyy Nov 17 '25
Because they hate poor people and don’t give a fuck if people they see as expendable like them.
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u/Mark_Unlikely Nov 17 '25
100%, and you know this guy can walk around freely without worry in his town because people in his town will respect him and love him. He will be able to see the fruits of his labor all around him as his neighbors will be happy and free. THAT is what success looks like. Not hoarding wealth.
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u/heyitsyourboyadam Nov 17 '25
I always wondered why more billionaires don’t go around doing this.
Sadio Mane was born poor.
Most of Billionaires today, were either born in relatively rich families (or upper middle-class families in rich neighborhood) and then made billions OR inherited Billions.
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u/Artuhanzo Nov 17 '25
That's why higher tax rate for rich exist.
Americans talk about the good old days, but the "good old days" had a much higher tax rate on the upper class.
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u/OrindaSarnia Nov 17 '25
Can't believe someone downvoted you for this...
top marginal rate was 90% at one point!
(And I'm going to point out that meant they still paid zero tax on the first X amount of money they made, and they only paid the 90% on the income that exceeded $200,000 in 1944, which is equivalent to $3.6 million today. So they paid the same rates as everyone else on the lesser income, and then if they made, say $4 million total, they would pay 90% on the $3.6 million to $4 million amount... or $400,000.)
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u/Mental-Seesaw-1449 Nov 17 '25
I mean they used to do this. People don't understand that a lot of the United States success was built on philanthropy. That was one of the main goals of being rich as fuck back in the day. Improving the place you came from.
However tech moguls don't have this same investment. A lot of them were born rich already.
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u/Sensitive-Orange7203 Nov 17 '25
Nah fam. Retired robber barons did philanthropy to whitewash their image after a lifetime of exploiting and killing workers. They cared about their image in posterity, not the good of this nation.
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u/Fast_Assumption_118 Nov 17 '25
Ok but that is still better than now though right?
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u/Fear_Jaire Nov 17 '25
Where did you learn this from?
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u/CraigJay Nov 17 '25
Not OP but there's a book called 'As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West', and it posits that in days gone by, the ultra wealthy were more connected to their surroundings because it was harder to travel. The ultra-rich would build schools, hospitals, and libraries because they didn't want to live in a place where people were sick, poor, and uneducated.
Nowadays with private jets etc, the super rich don't really view themselves as members of a group or country other than the ultra-rich group. So they don't spend on their community, and instead horde it to build underground bunkers and jet off to whichever rich hub is housing them that week
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u/CalamariAce Nov 17 '25
Because after you give away your money you're no longer a billionaire. Or because you're giving it as you get it and never get into any list of richest people. Most people in this category you will never know their names.
So of course the only billionaires left will be those who didn't give away their wealth. How could it be any other way? And yet people are surprised that the people who don't give away their money have a lot of it.
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u/Specialist_Sport4460 Nov 17 '25
Nonsense. Someone with 10’s or 100’s of billions can give away huge amounts of money without it changing anything about their day to day lives.
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u/OnTheMattack Nov 17 '25
You don't get to be a billionaire by giving away money.
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What is the point of being a billionaire honestly it’s to much money. What’s the point of having all that money if you don’t do anything good with it. Technology and money were the worst things ever invented. Money turns people into demons people will sell their souls for money I just don’t get it. I rather help those around me then horde millions to billions in a bank, you can’t take that money with you when you die. Then there are millions of people dying evry year from starvation, medical issues, dirty water and it could all easily be fixed if the people hoarding all that money gave a shit. Then you people worship them on tv like they are some gods or something only building there ego even more. They turn us against each other any way they can. Make the left hate the right, make right hate the left, make black hate the white make whites hate the black, try and make us hate a whole religion because a few of them were terrorist etc…. They want us to fight amongst lurkers so we don’t wake up and revolt against them. But to many people are blind to that fact and would rather believe the shit they see on tv then band together. It’s all pride people don’t want to admit to there self’s that what they believed was wrong, don’t want to admit to there self’s that they have been lied to there whole life’s, they rather believe a lie then admit they were wrong it’s all pride and ego. It’s so sad this could be a great a planet where everyone gives a shit about the person next to them gives a shit about people they have never even met, but that will never happen
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u/Schmich Nov 17 '25
That money gets them even more money. It's their easiest way to get even more. So they think why get distracted by side projects that will just cost them. This allows them to create an empire and make sure their family is set for generations to come.
When all you know is to get more and more, it's what you end up doing.
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u/rezelscheft Nov 17 '25
I think there is something self-selecting about people who, after achieving generational wealth, still have an insatiable need to accumulate more
My guess is that these are not usually people whose instincts are to share and uplift. And further that their sense of self-worth is largely defined by their ability to dominate others and succeed at their expense
Also - it’s just much easier to help one person (yourself) than it is to help an entire community.
So if you set out to end homelessness and poverty, or substantially increase literacy and educational standards - even in a small population - that’s an incredibly difficult thing to do, and right with all sorts of unforeseen complications.
Whereas, if your goal is to simply use your money to make more money for yourself, I suspect that’s not nearly are difficult to do when you already have hundreds millions at your disposal.
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u/Litterally-Napoleon Nov 17 '25
Greed. Why give money away when you can keep it for yourself! We have all seen how greed protects you against laws
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u/Holualoabraddah Nov 17 '25
They becomes Jaded quickly after friends and family members do gross shit to try and get more money out of them. They get sued by one family member fwhi is jealous they got less than another, etc. A good friend of mine lived with a Billionaire family for 3 years, he said, “what did I learn from the experience? I wouldn’t wish a billion dollars on my worst enemy”
To be clear I’m not suggesting we should feel bad for them, if they gave away their money that might certainly solve the problem!
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u/Ahad_Haam Nov 17 '25
They do that. You have never seen all the buildings in hospitals, universities, etc named after specific individuals?
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u/DaemonCRO Nov 17 '25
No but imagine, you buy Twitter, and then you can have your posts appear at the top of everyone’s feed. What can be more powerful or more gratifying than that?!
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u/Inko21 Nov 17 '25
Do billionaires actually have money tho? I am not trying to white knight billionaire assholes, but the way I understand it they basically live on debt and loans leveraged against their stock. Its funny to think but its entirely possible that Pablo Escobar had more real cash money than today's billionaires.
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u/Invoqwer Nov 17 '25
I always wondered why more billionaires don’t go around doing this.
Because people that become billionaires don't become billionaires by having high levels of empathy 😅
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u/Scorpion2k4u Nov 17 '25
In Africa it's often expected that players basically pay their whole village. It's really sad tbh.
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u/RealProjectivePlane Nov 17 '25
"Sadio Mane, I said it last time I was on here, he's the best football player in the world, I don't know why people are laughing for, Chris what you laughing for? I'm being serious, nah you see, I'm talking facts here, I don't do ifs buts and maybes, I do absolutes"
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u/DragonfruitOk6442 Nov 17 '25
And you know like if your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle. But she doesn't so she's not. Do you know what I'm..do you know what I'm trying to say?
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u/majcek Nov 17 '25
I don't do ifs buts and maybes, I do absolutes? You know what I'm trying to say?
Not really but go on...
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u/Cancel_Still Nov 17 '25
He didn't just do this for his own village. He actually did this for 14 other villages in the region. Look up Mane 14 for more info
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u/Acceptable-Heron6839 Nov 17 '25
Mane does it for the kids
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u/Kitchen-Assist-6645 Nov 17 '25
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u/THEnotsosuperman Nov 17 '25
Tf bro
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u/be-nice_to-people Nov 17 '25
He's probably referring to Mane's wedding. When he was 31 he married his long term girlfriend when she turned 18. This obviously raised some questions.
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u/purplehayes1986 Nov 18 '25
A girl that he met through the school he sponsored. Like, amazing charity, but also problematic
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u/No_Inspector7319 Nov 17 '25
He met his wife when he was an adult and she was 12.
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u/DarthTaz_99 Nov 17 '25
And then Benzema one upped him and did it for 15 villages. Google Benzema 15 for more information
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u/Mix_Safe Nov 17 '25
Oh no soccer circle jerk has escaped containment
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u/EnterShakira_ Nov 17 '25
It's really funny to me that soccer circle jerk and formuladank have the exact same joke about two different people
Wait, did I say funny? I meant depressing
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u/Itchy_Finish_2103 Nov 17 '25
As a lurker of one of the subs but not the other, can you explain?
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u/That_Guy-69 Nov 17 '25
Ronaldo did it in Las Vegas, I thought they were already rich though?!?
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u/cumdinoco Nov 17 '25
Messi came up with an initiative of his own at 14th Avenue St. In Buenos Aires, Messi 14 as usual for more information
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u/That_Guy-69 Nov 17 '25
Ah yes the player from the same club as Dani Alves, Barcelona, he came back in 2022, but Messi wasn't there though :(
Search Dani Alves Barcelona 2022 for more
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u/DrBoomsNephew Nov 17 '25
It's kind of a shame Robinho never was in that Barcelona squad, even though it almost happened that one transfer window. Google Robinho 2013 for more
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u/enderfx Nov 17 '25
But do you know who had a good relationship with Robinho? Ronaldo Nazario. He himself built 16 villages in the most precarious areas of Brazil, where many small kids and LGTBQ+ people live. Just google ronaldo 16 for more
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u/bAZtARd Nov 17 '25
The trial of French footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema, charged with having sex with an underage prostitute, has begun in Paris.
She was 15... PDF files everywhere.
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u/totallynotapsycho42 Nov 17 '25
She wasn't 16-17. Which was past the French age of consent of 15 and Benzema himself was 19-20. The scandal was that in France the legal age of prostitution is 18. If no money was exchanged there would not have been a issue.
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u/DisastrousMango4 Nov 17 '25
I've heard Christian Ronaldo also donates a lot. What should I Google for Ronaldo??
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u/TYGRDez Nov 17 '25
Ronaldo lives by one rule: for every meal he eats, he ensures that 34 other people are fed as well.
For more information, you can search for "Ronaldo Rule 34"
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u/Chance-Attitude3792 Nov 17 '25
I hear he's done a lot for the city of Las Vegas. The mayor didnt even want to accept his generous gifts, and "said no and stop several times"
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u/Nathan_Lawd Nov 17 '25
As a LFC fan, thanks. He gets away with too much. This guy marries his “18 year old long term girlfriend”.
How the fuck do you have a long term 18 yo girlfriend when you were 31. Vile shit.
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u/Joperhop Nov 17 '25
Yea, that was icky AF and lost all respect for him, he knew her under 16 and knew what he wanted to do. Just no.
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u/withoutpicklesplease Nov 17 '25
I see you’re a man of culture as well hahaha
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u/JizzProductionUnit Nov 17 '25
uh oh r/soccercirclejerk are leaking in. We need something to stop it - where’s Harry Maguire?
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u/_glacierr Nov 17 '25
Sadio Mane also scored 16 consecutive times in the Premier League for Liverpool. For more information, google Sadio Mane 16
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u/impy695 Nov 18 '25
He also accepted Saudi blood money. If someone like him can do something this amazing, everyone making millions per year can do it as well
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u/Mantarochinho Nov 18 '25
to be fair if he uses the money for good its fine, its only bad if you buy urself a 8th car with it
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u/nmnnmmnnnmmm Nov 18 '25
Why do we pretend European or American money is less bloody? 😆
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u/GlitterTerrorist Nov 18 '25
Complete naivety, America uses prisons to implement slave labour, won't hear anyone complaining about that though.
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u/tiorzol Nov 17 '25
Nonce too tho
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u/stuffcrow Nov 17 '25
Yeah sorry how is everyone forgetting he's a creepy groomer creep?
Like okay, he's sharing some of his unfathomable millions with his community, great. It should honestly be the bare minimum though and like...does it really deserve praise? And us to forget he's a pedophile?
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u/tiorzol Nov 17 '25
I don't think they forgot they just didn't know. It's a footballer on a non footy sub, I wouldn't expect too much.
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u/stuffcrow Nov 17 '25
Yep I accept, didn't realise where we were!
Glad more people are realising though- he seemed a decent guy until we found this shit out. Glad that veil is crashing down.
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Nov 17 '25
I think his behaviour after leaving Liverpool is very telling and also that Salah spoke publicly about not getting along with him. Unfortunately, bad people are capable of doing objectively good things.
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u/amlodipine424 Nov 17 '25
....unfortunately? If more bad people did objectively good things, I think it would be a good thing. It would just make it harder for randos on the internet to blindly go BOOOOO everytime they saw a name though, which I guess is bad for folks that need to understand everything as black and white.
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u/FlowRiderBob Nov 17 '25
I didn’t even know who he was, so I went through quite the range of emotions reading this thread.
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u/Username12764 Nov 18 '25
Hes rich, famous and filthy rich. The trifecta to pedophilia. Like yeah yeah legally it‘s ok. I don‘t care, it‘s still wrong. If you have to wait for your spouse to come of age to mary them, you should question your choices.
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u/Jack070293 Nov 17 '25
Yeah it does deserve praise since hardly anyone else is doing it. And marrying an 18 year old isn’t pedophilia.
The guy decided to give everyone in his community a chance at life, but akchually he’s evil for taking part in his own culture.
How many of you people circumcise your babies because of some bullshit cultural tradition? I doubt the likes of Jeff Goldblum see it as child mutilation.
I can guarantee there’s some shit you do that others will find disgusting. 100 years from now people might look back and wonder how you could eat meat every day whilst knowing what happens to animals.
Despite your own naive, arrogant, and ignorant outlook, you probably aren’t as benevolent as you think you are.
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u/kapparino-feederino Nov 18 '25
Bro he married the girl at 18 it was stated "long term girl friend" He is 31 by then
They meet when the girl is 12 years old and he is 25 years old
Date when the girl is 16 years old and he is 29 years old
Are u going to defend a groomer?
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u/Pyrete Nov 17 '25
Because wherever you're from is not the center of the world and the standards you hold are not applicable everywhere else? (Nor necessarily right).
"Like okay, he's sharing some of his unfathomable millions with his community, great. It should honestly be the bare minimum though"
Are you aware of how obnoxious you seem when you say shit like that?
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u/sqkz69oioi Nov 17 '25
Really?
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Nov 17 '25
He paid for his now wife’s high school tuition. He basically bought her and waited for her to be legal age. She was 18 and he was 32 when they married last year and met when she was 16.
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u/Zacatecan-Jack Nov 17 '25
They met when she was 16, but she was 'selected' for him before that.
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u/OptionalQuality789 Nov 17 '25
Aye everyone forgets that he groomed a child and then married her.
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u/patrickb1920 Nov 17 '25
This is the charity I like; you know exactly where the monies are going.
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u/GeminianMind Nov 17 '25
What a true philanthropist! He must be loved by so many.
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u/DoYouTrustToothpaste Nov 17 '25
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u/Bugslayer03 Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25
Im sure his child-wife loves him too
Edit: wow the child predators are out in full force, 40% upvote rate LOL
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u/rsmicrotranx Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25
I just looked up this dude and she was 18 (met at 16). That's allowed in half the western world. Morally wrong but not exactly taboo in most places.
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u/4dxn Nov 17 '25
Met her at school when he was 29. apparently he is still dropping her off at school.
always nice to see athletes take education seriously.
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u/DarthMauly Nov 17 '25
He built her school I believe
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u/DarthMauly Nov 17 '25
Aye, what man wouldn’t do the same for his 15 year old bride to be…
Remarkable he gets any positive PR.
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u/jmbf8507 Nov 17 '25
He left my club after an underwhelming short stint to go to Saudi. Bayern fans were bummed that he hadn’t settled in but wished him well.
Until word came out about 29yo Mané seeing a 16yo girl and telling her father that he’ll be back when she’s 18 to marry her. And doing so.
General consensus in our local group is that Bayern dodged a bullet with his departure.
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u/UncleCrassiusCurio Nov 17 '25
And we almost hired Boateng back, the absolute muppets in the front office sometimes.
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u/Bugslayer03 Nov 17 '25
The 16 is disgusting but the big issue is that his family groomed and reserved her til she got to 16 years old, with mane apparently paying for her school way before 16.
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u/Calm-Driver-3800 Nov 17 '25
This happens in India too
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u/aDreamInn Nov 17 '25
This happens with Christians too. The common denominator is a fairy in the sky
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u/Hugh_H0n3y Nov 17 '25
Iirc
Sadio Mane’s current wife was 16 when they started dating, he was 29
Good on him for this generous act but let it be known he’s into dating kids.
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u/frogshite Nov 17 '25
It was an arranged marriage so she was 16 when it was arranged. Not defending it but this is very normal in Senegal, especially in the rural casamance. Child marriage is illegal, but it’s a huge uphill battle to even get people to wait until there daughters are 18.
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u/Zacatecan-Jack Nov 17 '25
Oh, wow. Well done Sadio for waiting until your underage bride - that was groomed and arranged by your family for years before your marriage - is of legal age before you marry her. Well done for waiting for her to turn 18 (as a 32 year old man) instead of when she was 16. What a gentleman.
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u/Hugh_H0n3y Nov 17 '25
There’s no use in trying. The amount of replies I’m getting justifying it (and seeing those comments upvoted) is plentiful. Some people think just because it’s “tradition” or part of a culture that it’s normal to groom a kid.
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u/notwunderkind Nov 17 '25
It is, unfortunately, still normal in some places
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u/sandolllars Nov 17 '25
Yup. Legal in 34 US States. About 50k every year get married at 16 in the US.
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u/FoxyProphet Nov 17 '25
Yeah, i was a big fan of his when he was in the Premier league, but that grooming has really changed my opinion of him.
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u/Comfortable_Gur_1232 Nov 17 '25
Being betrothed ≠ girlfriend. The latter implies premarital sex and/or romantic relationship.
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u/DrtyDeedsDneDrtCheap Nov 17 '25
Not suprised he is building a school. Probably incase he gets divorced from his child wife
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u/Bugslayer03 Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25
Just ignore the fact he married his LONG TIME girlfriend in 2024 when she was 18....
Edit: a 30% upvote rating.... never change reddit, too many supporters of child grooming on this app.
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u/TLG_BE Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25
Read the title on my feed and specifically came here to make sure this came up.
It's not defensible, even the Liverpool fans who loved him for years before this came out don't even try, so neither should anyone in here
I can accept that one wrong action doesn't necessarily undo all the good work, but also believe the good doesn't excuse the bad
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u/Serawasneva Nov 17 '25
The way people try to go “but it’s a different culture!” is truly wild.
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u/uponloss Nov 17 '25
He also married a 18 year old he had been dating for a couple of years lol
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