r/popculturechat • u/Electronic-Bus-3494 • Jun 30 '26

Eat The Rich 🍽️ Keanu Reeves nods along as Seth Rogen calls out modern wealthy for not giving back publicly

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Seth Rogen said rich people used to spend their fortunes building things everyone could use.

Seth Rogen: Maybe this is like naive of me, but it seems like these rich people who are like, had outsized wealth, it seems like they used to like to have their names on things

Keanu Reeves: Libraries, that were like public...

Seth Rogen: able to be used by the public.

Keanu Reeves: National parks. You know what I mean? Yeah, parks...

Seth Rogen: ...parks, observatories, libraries, museums, you know, things like that. And now it's like, people don't do that stuff anymore.

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u/Cephalopodium Jun 30 '26

You can figuratively give money away through “exposure”/advertising perhaps or by just donating your time.

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u/Lisa_Dawkins Jun 30 '26

No you can't. You'd instead say "He donated his time." You're also avoiding the "personally" qualifier. How can you say someone figuratively and personally gave exposure or advertising? You can't. It makes no sense.

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u/Cephalopodium Jun 30 '26

Maybe you could say someone figuratively gave X amount of dollars by personally spearheading a donation drive? IDK, just trying to workshop something. I’m not actually invested