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Kudos to Mack Scott for turning the cliche on its head for both terms
Bravo to Mackenzie Scott.
From the flipside research (“Hacking The Afterlife” “Flipside”) we find that out of the most unusual backgrounds, people rise to the occasion to save others. In this instance, one can argue that everything that has happened in her life has led to this moment — and everything in the lifetime of her ex was about finding a way to get funds to her so that she could save lives.
Seeding by Ceding
Sitting down to write this post, I felt stuck. I want to de-emphasize privileged voices and cede focus to others, yet I know some media stories will focus on wealth. The headline I would wish for this post is “286 Teams Empowering Voices the World Needs to Hear.”
People struggling against inequities deserve center stage in stories about change they are creating. This is equally — perhaps especially — true when their work is funded by wealth. Any wealth is a product of a collective effort that included them. The social structures that inflate wealth present obstacles to them. And despite those obstacles, they are providing solutions that benefit us all.
Putting large donors at the center of stories on social progress is a distortion of their role. Me, Dan, a constellation of researchers and…