Jeff Bezos' Ex-wife MacKenzie Scott Exposes Most Billionaires as Scrooge

Shining a light of generosity in the age of Scrooge as Hero is important work, and Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott is doing it.

In the year of Evil 2025, MacKenzie Scott gave $7.1 billion to nonprofits, in what was a major increase of giving, bringing her total giving to $26.3 billion.

The only way to fight the plague of indecency and race to the bottom of social behavior is with goodness. Shining a light of generosity in the age of Scrooge as Hero is important work, and Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott is doing it.

Since 2019, Scott has donated $26.3 billion to nonprofits.

More than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities “revealed they had received $783 million in donations from Scott so far this year, according to research from Marybeth Gasman, a professor at Rutgers University and expert on HBCUs,” the AP reported. Gasman referred to Scott as an “equity machine”, in contrast to the Trump administration’s attacks on equity in education.

In total, Gasman has tracked $1.35 billion in donations from Scott to HBCUs since 2020.

Scott’s website is titled “Yield Giving,” which she explains thusly: “yield: (verb) 1. to increase 2. to give up control.”

Scott even acknowledges that this fortune she is giving away came to her as a work “created through the effort of countless people, Yield is named after a belief in adding value by giving up control. Our network of staff and advisors has yielded over $26,000,000,000 in 2,700+ gifts to non-profit teams to use as they see fit for the benefit of others.”

We are unlikely to hear the self-identified “alpha males” ever tout giving up control, as their entire purpose seems to be about getting and maintaining control over everyone else. And the metaphorically small billionaire boys greedily sucking up every resource on the planet for themselves while scheming that they will send anyone who survives them off into space or they will go there after they destroy this planet are also infamous for taking credit for other people’s work.

They excuse their own curmudgeonly ways arguing that large-scale philanthropy can be inefficient or claiming they are doing more good by investing money and building businesses which they claim create jobs and generate tax revenue — while they spend money freely to lobby to avoid paying anything near their fair share of taxes themselves.

Notably, Jeff Bezos has paid very little or even zero federal income tax in some years, like 2007 and 2011, due to loopholes allowing the super-rich to minimize taxes. Why so stingy then?

Billionaire baby boys have a small, self-centered mindset that gives LDE.

MacKenzie Scott, on the other hand, has a big, generous energy that expands hope and that’s why this story is perfect for this era, during which we are bombarded with negativity.

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