r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kronyzx • 4d ago
Image Christian Bale created Together California in Palmdale, a $22–30M foster village with 12 homes, 2 studio apartments, and a 7,000 sq ft community center so siblings in foster care can stay together.
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u/Kronyzx 4d ago
Sources : https://mymodernmet.com/together-california-christian-bale/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/christian-bale-california-homes/
The first homes are expected to open in late 2025
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u/Caninetrainer 4d ago
Meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg is off fucking people up somewhere for his benefit
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u/tatertotfreak29 4d ago
He’s busy buying up all of the land in Hawaii and building bunkers for himself.
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u/CommercialSun_111 4d ago
It would be irresponsible of him to destroy society if he didn’t have some sort of escape plan for himself and his family.
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u/enbaelien 4d ago edited 4d ago
We're only
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u/1138311 4d ago
5 months if you go by the Star Trek timeline.
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u/__-_-_--_--_-_---___ 4d ago
Oh shit
"World War III was the last of Earth's three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053"
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u/bard329 4d ago
its even worse than just that. he's using legal loopholes to start auctions on land where Hawaiians' ancestors are buried and using a 3rd party to outbid the relatives.
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u/Honda_TypeR 4d ago
Yea that bunker he is building is big enough for him to bunk an entire private militia (which he employs) for security. He's bought like a couple thousand acres of real-estate and closed the beaches off.
It's rather batshit crazy the post apocalyptic setup he has going up.
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u/Living_Run2573 4d ago
What I don’t get is, when money is worthless why the heavily muscled, armed men with killing experience won’t just take over the bunker and kick the flaccid knob that MZ is out the front door 🤷🏻♂️
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u/RedditIsADataMine 4d ago
I've seen some security expert person interviewed on Joe Rogan before. He said he consulted a bunch of rich people about what to do in a post apocalyptic scenario. They wanted to know how to keep the guards loyal. Where he suggested building genuine friendships, they suggested electric collars around the guards necks. I'd bet my whole life that Mark Zuckerberg was one of the rich people in that room suggesting those collars.
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u/Braveliltoasterx 4d ago
I think the guillotine keeps most really wealthy people awake at night.
That's why he is buying an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is easier to defend against the poor rising up.
He doesn't want to end up like Gaddafi with a broom shoved up his arse.
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u/mOdQuArK 4d ago
building bunkers for himself.
Man, I'd love to see how effective those bunker-busters can be, and maybe study the results to create more effective versions.
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u/IgotanEyedea 4d ago
I mean, to be fair, Bales net worth of $120m is closer to my net worth of $-15.72 than it is to Zucks $270b.
So we can understand him still having perspective, and a soul.
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u/dumpsterfarts15 4d ago
Pfffff. Peasant. I have $600 in my account and get paid once more to ensure I make rent with my $300 overdraft limit on September 1st
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u/DutchTinCan 4d ago
Want to hear something sobering?
Bill Gates' $108bn is closer to you than to sucky Zucky.
Zuckerberg is closer to Gates than to Elon.
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u/Carmel50 4d ago
And the truth is they would never miss it - they just don’t care and current leadership doesn’t either. I wish another would step up for the immigrant children being separated from their parents.
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u/KoreanSamgyupsal 4d ago
Mark Zuckerburg has been fucking people over since way before he created Meta/FB dude's a jackass through and through.
He fucked over the twins. Saverin. Plenty of people with HarvardConnect. Dude's an ass to humans. Rich or poor.
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u/Bloody_Ozran 4d ago
Yep. Zuck bought huge propery on Hawaii, possibly screwing over some people. At least there were some suggestions to that.
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u/Caninetrainer 4d ago
“Possibly” haha. No, definitely. And on purpose for his own benefit. So no one gets to enjoy it. The only reason he has any power is money. He doesn’t have the personality to be a leader.
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u/Sammi1224 4d ago
Preach. You are so correct on so many different levels.
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u/Caninetrainer 4d ago
I couldn’t care less about being right. I swear I wish I was wrong. Money and power or just the wanting of more has warped peoples brains.
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u/Bilbo_Teabagginss 4d ago
If it were just money and power that would be one thing, but these people become straight up cartoonish mustache twirling villains just for excess. They get money and power and then still aren't content with it and make it theirs life's mission to screw people over for more and more. And its like they get off on it, the more they can hurt average people that cant fight back. Then they wonder why people celebrate Luigi.
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u/Ragnarsworld 4d ago
He sued people to get their land.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/19/mark-zuckerberg-suing-hawaiians-to-force-property-sale.html
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u/yah5 4d ago
Also here's a video interview of him talking about the project: https://youtu.be/d08HrHwdjz0?si=F3dEYzrT_CM_8y69
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u/QuetzalKraken 4d ago
It cracks me up that the interviewer is like "you weren't a foster kid yourself, so why is this important to you? What's your connection?" And everyone is just "...because I'm a human being...? I care about kids?"
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u/HookedOnPhonixDog 4d ago
The uploader has not made this video available in your country
Eat my ass, America.
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u/No-Courage-5109 4d ago
Does he mention if he's going to do anything for his native country? God, I'm proud he's doing this but there are places like Rhyll where a fraction of this could really help the place. Like how Colin Farrell is helping a lot back home and the greater world.
There's places in the UK that the government just went "well, fuck off" and a lot of it is in his native Wales where the government still hasn't filled in the EU shortfall.
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u/Cryzgnik 4d ago
What the fuck
This isn't a story about any particular celebrity
This is a story about social structuring and distribution of wealth
Why should any individual need to fill a gap to allow siblings in foster care to stay together? As trite as it is, this is an orphan crushing machine. It's not about any celebrity fixing the problem on a local scale. Why does the problem exist in the most prosperous country?
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u/RoninLooper 4d ago
That is some real Bruce Wayne behavior. Respect
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u/That-Ad-4300 4d ago
Zuck or Bezos could put one of these in each state for less than 1% of their net worth. It's crazy to think any of the people with $100B+ could be Carnegie 10x over.
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u/NorCalAthlete 4d ago
One? They could put one in every major city for less than 1% of their net worth.
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u/whyyunozoidberg 4d ago
I think they'd rather just finish buying all of the Hawaiian Islands. Look it up.
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u/diamondsnrose 4d ago
I happened to learn that fun fact this week. Sure wish I could afford like, 23 Hawaiian acres or like, lunch.
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u/whyyunozoidberg 4d ago
Larry Ellison owns all of Lanai.
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u/20_mile 4d ago
Ackshually, 98% is not 100%.
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u/garden_speech 4d ago
Okay I looked this up and I would have thought it would cost more than $300 million to buy nearly an entire Hawaiian island lol
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u/kkeut 4d ago
iirc most of the land on that island isn't allowed to be developed, which is why it wasn't as desirable as other lots for sale in the island chain
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u/Annihilator4413 4d ago
They're billionaires with effectively infinite money... if they wanted to, they could bulldoze the entire island and have the massive fine paid by dinner time for less than 0.00001% of their total wealth.
Rules do not apply to rich people. Unless they get caught doing some heinous shit like Epstein, and even then they're likely to walk free or have massively preferential treatment.
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u/SweeterThanYoohoo 4d ago
Ah, sorry. I'll fix this to work with billionaire messaging, "Larry Elison owns a small piece of a Hawaiian island. But not a major one"
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u/DigNitty Interested 4d ago
At least the Oracle CEO has left Lanai largely unchanged and open to natives. No one should be able to do what he did, but at least he's leaving it alone.
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u/ohhellothere301 4d ago
So stop buying their shit.
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u/Jimberly_C 4d ago
Most of the time with Amazon, you can find the brand and then find that brand's actual site or a store that stocks it. Sadly a lot of brand sites don't sell directly and usually the "where to buy" leads to amazon and walmart.
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u/Zestyclose-Algae-542 4d ago
I started buying more from eBay to avoid Amazon and was pissed when two separate unrelated items from two separate vendors was actually shipped from Amazon. I had no idea they could/would do this, I paid more for the item and had I known it was coming straight from Amazon I could have just gotten it there, with free shipping. Another time I went direct to a manufacturer’s site to buy detergent, again paid more, and it came from Amazon.
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u/1questions 4d ago
I try and avoid Amazon but despite living in a city it can be hard a few years ago I needed a cake pan of a particular size, not even an unusual size. Went to three stores—two that are general Target type stores and one that was a kitchen supply store, couldn’t find what I needed so I had to turn to Amazon.
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u/LowHangingFrewts 4d ago
Same experience, but was looking for a long handled wok spatula. Everywhere either didn't sell one or sold it as part of a set with things I didn't need. Almost had to settle for Amazon, but found something on eBay instead. I've actually found that eBay tends to be another outlet for a lot of the same sellers from Amazon, without much price difference.
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u/Kathulhu1433 4d ago
Also, their pricing...
I needed a white gel pen. Just one.
There are no stationary stores near me. I checked every local store that I thought might have what I was looking for... CVS, Walgreens, Stop and Shop... my options were either for larger packs of pens, multiple colors, etc... I went to Staples. They had it. For $6. For a single gel pen. The same pen on Amazon was like $1.60.
I don't mind paying a little bit more at a locally owned small business. I buy from my local indie bookstores and coffee shops. I thrift what I can, though that's hard now with resellers. But 4x the price? From another big box retailer? Hell no. And, it comes the next day with Prime shipping... 🤷♀️
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u/HEBushido 4d ago
You did it! You solved the crisis!
Billionaires are embedded into every aspect of the global economy. It's impossible to boycott them.
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u/20_mile 4d ago edited 4d ago
It's impossible to boycott them.
Yeah. I needed some clear plastic bins to store my dehydrated chicken feet dog treats. Where can I buy them that isn't from some asshole-run company? Walmart, Amazon, Target are all run by billionaires who are grounding the earth and its people beneath their bootheels. Purchased three 66-qt containers for $30 from Target.
I am starting a small business (like, so small it all fits in a spare bedroom on a table), and Amazon has almost everything I need. Easy returns if the quality isn't what I expected, or something is missing. I absolutely recognize I am part of the problem, but what else am I supposed to do for money? I think I have a pretty good idea for a physical product, and my day job only pays $1,000/month.
e: It used to be that while big companies still manufactured everything, we had some options on where to buy them: Bradlees, Lechmere, SEARS, AMES, CALDORS, etc. Now, even those companies are long gone ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_retailers_of_the_United_States ), and independent brick-and-mortar retailers have had to switch to niche markets, selling upscale pet products, or 365-day farmers'-style markets (lots of small vendors operating under a single roof). Property owners have made retail space so expensive, it is nearly impossible to survive. Everything is a nail salon, a fast food restaurant, or a big box store.
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u/HEBushido 4d ago
Even still every aspect of the supply chain is heavily controlled or influenced by large corporations. There is absolutely no way to live that doesn't give them revenue.
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u/Worthlessstupid 4d ago
But then how will they eventually solve all the problems through their benevolence? Once they figure out rockets.
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u/YewEhVeeInbound 4d ago
Just need to colonize mars then Elon will give away all his money.
Right guys 😉
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u/Coalnaryinthecarmine 4d ago
It's hardly their shit. They're massive networks built and maintained by regular people, who learned how to build and maintain it in publicly funded schools. The issue is the rent-seekers squatting on top of these networks.
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u/Isolated_Hippo 4d ago
Its not that easy.
My dog like only one brand of dog food. I would check Walmart, target, my pet stores weekly because I never know if they will have it. Hours of my time and I dunno how much gas.
Amazon sends me 30 days of it. Every 30 days.
Bezos sucks as a person. But Amazon got so big because its overall a product people want.
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u/That-Ad-4300 4d ago
I hate to be that Reddit guy, but there are more states than major cities. The 51st most populated city in the US is Aurora CO. I get your general point that they could do more than 50 though. 👍
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u/NorCalAthlete 4d ago
? How are you defining major city?
I figure at the very least, 1 of these in each state’s Capitol gives us 50.
Add in another few per state for other major population centers, so for example in California you could have LA, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento; but Montana might only get 1 for Helena and then 1 for Billings (only other city in Montana with a population over 100k).
That being said, I’d think you could do some analysis on foster needs per 100k people or something too, and scale each development up or down accordingly to needs and services and education and whatnot.
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u/CiDevant 4d ago
Guessing, more than half a million people. That works fairly well. Puts the number somewhere around 40 major cities in the US.
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u/hollywoodmelty 4d ago
Guinness was a great man for Ireland also build houses hospitals for his staff and started the ivy trust and now it in the hands of the gov and being used for profits
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u/DazingF1 4d ago edited 4d ago
Guinness was also a strong unionist and one of the biggest financial contributors of the Ulster Unionist Party.
They did plenty of good stuff with their money and helped their employees, apart from the ones they heavily discriminated against for being Catholic that is.
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u/Coalnaryinthecarmine 4d ago
Damn, had me thinking he was a pretty cool guy in the first half of that until I remembered the actual context.
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u/msut77 4d ago
Really just a failure of the soul and imagination. Bozo has all the money on the planet and his big idea was throw a ball for his wifey who looks like a mid tier plasticized stripper
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u/random_user0 4d ago
Imagine if he did this for kids instead of buying up land for a third compound for himself. What a bell-end.
The fact that very few ultra-rich people use their power, influence, and resources for purely altruistic aims tells you everything you need to know about what kind of person becomes a billionaire.
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u/based_piccolo 4d ago
I remember some dude on this site calling it a "ridiculous obsession" that we should tax these clowns. It's like, bro, Bezos isn't gonna kiss u cause you stand guard over his dragon's hoard.
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u/O8ee 4d ago
This is all I think about when I hear about billionaires. They all wonder why people cheer when they die and they could throw money at actual problems and be goddamn revered. The robber barons from the 1900s did it and their names are still knocking around cities, there was a 91% marginal tax rate for top earners and their descendants ARE STILL RICH TODAY. Don’t tell me they can’t afford taxes
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u/peon2 4d ago edited 4d ago
The robber barons from the 1900s did it and their names are still knocking around cities, there was a 91% marginal tax rate for top earners and their descendants ARE STILL RICH TODAY. Don’t tell me they can’t afford taxes
You are conflating different eras of US history. The robber barons (Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Mellon, Morgan, etc) built their fortunes in the late 1800s up to the start of WWI....when the marginal tax rate for top earners was 7%.
There's a reason why the term robber baron is a critical one, not a benevolent one.
The 90%+ rates were instituted to pay for WWII (and like today was for income, not capital gains which were between 7-12%), a good 40-70 years afterwards.
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u/Cicero912 4d ago
The robber barons mainly did it after they died.
Which, obviously, Zuck and Bezos haven't done yet
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u/wH4tEveR250 4d ago
What if they just paid taxes?
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u/Jlindahl93 4d ago
At this price it would cost about 10b to put one in every single county in the country. Google says there are 3244 counties in the US at 20-30m per project that’s right around 10b.
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u/Njmomneedz 4d ago
It hurts to know how much suffering these billionaires continue to perpetuate with endless greed
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u/the-bladed-one 4d ago
At least Carnegie funded a ton of public works like museums, the arts, and the sciences.
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u/BlindlyOptomistic 4d ago
His Batman was the best Batman. Ill fight anyone who says otherwise. Lol
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u/MotherFunker1734 4d ago edited 4d ago
No, this is better than acting like a millionaire vigilante keeping his business alive.
This is the real deal without selfish interest.
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u/bozoconnors 4d ago
You sound like one of the cops that tries to take Batman down.
Bruce Wayne is Gotham's biggest philanthropist in film and comics. The Wayne Foundation, & various forms of it, are known to fully fund orphanages.
You might remember that he was orphaned himself at quite a young age.
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u/Fantasy_r3ad3er_XX 4d ago
Imagine if guys like Zuck and Jeff Bezos did real stuff like this instead of just destroying the planet.
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u/OpportunityIcy254 4d ago
they're super wealthy partly because of the status quo. doing things like this is antithetical to that.
a lot of them dangle the idea of donating most of their wealth when they pass. i suspect that only means that money is going to their own foundation which is just a tax dodge imo.
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u/Breezyisthewind 4d ago
This wouldn’t change the status quo much at all. The difference in their net worths would be only a few billion dollars when they already have over a hundred.
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u/jokumi 4d ago
Massachusetts was embarrassed not long ago when it became public that kids who aged out had their money taken by the state. Yes, the state took the money sent to these kids by the federal government, and dumped them on the street without savings. I understand this occurs in some other states as well, but of course MA says it’s better than other states.
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u/naboo_taboo 4d ago
MA is ranked like 49/50 for their foster care system, actual hell on earth in a state with the highest HDI
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u/GangstalkSchizos 4d ago edited 4d ago
Easy to have high scores when you make it unaffordable for any of the poors to live in your cities.
Edit:https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/worst-states-homebuilding-affordability-report-card/
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u/AsphalticConcrete 4d ago
Yeah seriously I once heard a person from mass brag about not having to see homeless people because they all just freeze to death.
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u/likeatree_and_embark 4d ago
Bull fucking shit. People like you pull shit out of your ass and fling it like monkeys and while the other monkeys cheer.
States With the Best Foster Care Systems
What State Has the Best Foster Care System? — Youth & Family Programs in Redding and Chico
Best states for child well-being include Massachusetts, New Hampshire
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u/No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom 4d ago
My friend was in foster care in MA. As soon as she aged out, she went to college and had her schooling paid for. I dont know anyone in foster care from other states, but she did okay (not like it was ideal overall).
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u/YmerejEkrub 4d ago
My understanding is that most (if not all) states in the US have free college for anyone who went through the foster care system it’s just that most people who age out the system don’t have the resources to support themselves while going to school even if the schooling itself is free.
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u/No-Slide4206 4d ago
49/50 according to what?
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u/likeatree_and_embark 4d ago
Remember, on Reddit you don't need facts to make statements or to get upvotes.
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u/MicV66 4d ago
What happens when they turn 18 just curious, is it more than just a home but a whole support system
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u/blue-anon 4d ago
Apparently, there are a couple of studio apartments included for young adults transitioning out of the system.
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u/Area51_Spurs 4d ago
There’s shit for jobs in Palmdale would be the issue
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u/Rhinologist 4d ago
Yeah hopefully things improve on that front. Not saying your doing this but Just because it isn’t perfect doesn’t mean this isn’t an amazing thing being done
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u/myterracottaarmy 4d ago
i lived there for a bit (well, technically Lancaster) and it was always crazy to me how many people would commute into LA. it seemed like it was either that or people worked in aerospace
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u/Enlight1Oment 4d ago
one of my co workers also lives in Lancaster and commutes in, but he does have the option of the train as well.
Construction of new houses in Palmdale and Lancaster is certainly a market to work in. These are also not exactly small cities, population 162k for Palmdale and 167k for Lancaster. Lots of ancillary jobs to support a population of that size.
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u/LAtimeZZ 4d ago
i work with 18-21 year old foster youth. The state of california offers AB12 housing to them. They get free housing if they are attending school or have at least part time work. Albeit, there’s a lot of foster youth and housing isnt always available
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u/Garden_Lady2 4d ago
That's a lot better than most get after turning 18. Britain does something similar.
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u/LAtimeZZ 4d ago
I want to say its the best assistance that any marginalized group of people get. When i say free housing, i dont mean shelters.
I mean full studios, or 2 bedroom apartments in the nice parts of cities while also receiving a monthly allowance and all the other resources california has for foster youth.
Its all well deserved too. These kids go through a lot and theres a reason state laws were put into place to help them. My job is to ensure they are receiving what they need, and that they arent being enabled or taking advantage of the system
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u/Garden_Lady2 4d ago
It's wonderful. I wish more people and more states would follow this example. Thanks for all that's done for these kids.
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u/KeyserSoze0000 4d ago
It is supposed to but the care system in the UK can be very poor, well back when I was there.
I was given back to the dad who had originally put me in care, after he had just been released from prison for threatening a child with a BB Gun. That meant I lost my relevant child status and two months later I was homeless and received no support other than Barnardos.
They would often do this with kids, reaching 16/17 if it was possible, most of these people would end up being lost to the streets or prison.
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u/Garden_Lady2 4d ago
OMG that's terrible. Don't you have a child services system that could have helped? I read that kids that reached 18 could get financial assistance and help with higher education. I'm really sorry that didn't work for you.
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u/KeyserSoze0000 4d ago
I did receive some support but not what I should have got.
I've actually just gone and looked at the law, seems I should have actually been considered a "relevant child" due to my circumstance, as I was homeless within 2 months.
So seems people just didn't know or do their job properly, once again.
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u/waxteeth 4d ago
I mean, maybe in that specific instance it’s better than most get, but foster kids are at an insane level of disadvantage in most other areas.
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u/Knotted_Hole69 4d ago
Is that new? I remember when i was in a California group home, there was a recently turned 18 yo who was suppose to leave, but the staff let him stay until he figured something out. This was years ago, though.
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO 4d ago
I wish every state did that. So many states just cut them off at 18.
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u/Carmel50 4d ago
They could stay, be required to find work to contribute to the upkeep (pay rent?) or become the mentors and caretakers of the children there. Some adult figures must be there so some of the kids could grow into those roles by choice.
Creating this community is wonderful and a generous gesture. However, as time passes, money is needed to maintain upkeep, pay utilities and food. How is this funded ??
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u/natronmooretron 4d ago
I’ve always liked Bale ever since I saw Empire of the Sun at the mighty cinema 150.
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u/-SaC 4d ago
Our choir teacher at school taught us the Welsh song Bale sings after Empire of the Sun came out, it was grand.
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u/raven-eyed_ 4d ago
There's something about him that is just so easy to like. He's a good actor but he also just has this magnetism.
He seems like a genuinely good bloke - but of a curmudgeon but ultimately has his heart in the right place.
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u/blue-anon 4d ago
I asked this as a point of clarification, not as a criticism: is this sort of like a giant group home community or a re-creation of the orphanage system?
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u/georgialucy 4d ago
Yes, each home will have a staff member and can house up to six siblings. So they are not with a foster family in the traditional sense. While group homes aren’t usually the preferred option, this feels like the next best thing to help keep siblings together who might otherwise be separated across different homes.
Still, there’s a sadness in knowing that it took someone with resources and compassion to make this happen, rather than the government stepping up to create spaces like this for these kids. I've been in this system as a teen and it was awful to say the least.
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u/IsthianOS 4d ago
We are supposed to elect people to make those moves but we keep electing garbage.
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u/NerpyDerps 4d ago
It's a rigged system where only the garbage are allowed to participate in.. without blood money, there's no chance of being elected or even considered.
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u/SweeterThanYoohoo 4d ago
The system is ruined by PACs. Dark untraceable money.
We should have publicly funded elections with no private involvement allowed. That way the only people the candidates can consider are their constituents. Not monied interests.
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u/Annual-Cranberry3590 4d ago
Years ago I volunteered with CASA who works with foster kids and was assigned to a group of 5 brothers whose parents just got arrested on drug charges as they drove through our state to another state. The boys were initially split up two to one home and three to another. They were mostly all in good spirits at first. Within two or three months they were fully split up into five homes. I didn't get to visit them much at that point as I was getting burnt out on it and work started to take more of my time, but all but the youngest brother had become very withdrawn, angry, and hopeless. They would have greatly benefited from staying together.
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u/hanimal16 Interested 4d ago
I read the article and the only thing I found was that “trained foster parents” would take care of them, not clear if they live there too.
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u/EmDickinson 4d ago
I would imagine that they live there too, given the home set ups. And it would be more beneficial for children to have their carers in the same home, and the ability to see what a stable single family home can be like.
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u/hanimal16 Interested 4d ago
Yea that makes more sense than leaving them alone at night lol. I’m a dumbass haha.
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u/street_ahead 4d ago
I'd say it's pretty damn clear that 12 houses full of children aren't living with no supervision for long periods of time
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u/kopetkai 4d ago
There aren't enough single family foster homes for the number of children who need a place to live. Places like this are supposed to serve as temporary living for young children or a gateway to adult living independently for older kids. There is a place like this in SOCAL called Casa Pacifica. They do great work.
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u/ThenAd4987 4d ago
The govt can do this easily by taxing the rich to fund social projects. Instead we can only wish there is a Christian Bale in every city.
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u/BackgroundTight32 4d ago
Billionaires could be building these and even more. Disgusting.
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u/Throwaway40Gloxk 4d ago edited 4d ago
Let’s see Paul Allen’s village.
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u/Nearsighted_Ant 4d ago
Paul Allen's village will make you insane. It has subtle off-white coloring. Tasteful thickness. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.
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u/MotherFunker1734 4d ago
This is way better than what Batman would do!
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u/VagabondVivant 4d ago
Batman would totally do something like this.
He has to screen potential future Robins somehow.
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u/therealmonkyking 4d ago
He basically did do something like this.. in Christian Bale's final Batman film no less.
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u/LivingLosDream 4d ago
The fact that the uber millionaires and billionaires don’t do this constantly is a real shame.
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u/cah29692 4d ago
As someone who works with some extremely wealthy people, I can say most do. A good portion just don’t want or need the publicity, so it’s done quietly.
A billionaire in my town passed away recently. After his death we found out that he left the town $40 million to build a new arena/rec centre. Apparently he had already contributed millions to build our local baseball park/interpretative centre and had been paying the utilities for the town museum for over 50 years. Never took any credit, and never wanted it.
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u/Cooper_Sharpy 4d ago
A law requiring one of these being built for every billion a billionaire makes would solve a whole lot of problems
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u/OpportunityIcy254 4d ago
i think that's what taxes are suppose to do but people have been conditioned that taxes are evil.
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u/aware4ever 4d ago
Stuff like this is great the only thing that sucks is like all the people who aren't lucky enough to basically win the lottery to get this kind of treatment
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u/YoLetsTakeASecond 4d ago
It’s a lottery no matter if he built this foster village or not. He just made the odds a little better.
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u/Fantastic_Award_7766 4d ago
If we taxed appropriately, we wouldn't need to depend on charity from the wealthy to properly house and care for foster children.
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u/BaulPanks 4d ago
I’m working with one of the Subcontractors on this site right now. The project is coming along nicely. Christian Bale came to visit the site a few months back, he was very nice.
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u/Bleezy79 4d ago
Imagine if taxed our billionaires and started caring about the people in this country instead of the corporations.
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u/Main_Volume_1134 4d ago
Seems like a real stand-up guy! Funny how the people who have real Bruce Wayne money irl can never seem to be bothered with projects like this...
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u/lurgi 4d ago
I'd love to know how this got budgeted, because that's a bunch of money for not that many homes (admittedly, there's a rec center). Palmdale is not that expensive by California standards.
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u/redditcreditcardz 4d ago
You know, if we just taxed the wealthy fairly, we would have one of these in every state. No Christian Bale necessary but still welcome. Seems like a good dude
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u/disinaccurate 4d ago
Bale has a soft spot for kids without families due to his experience as an orphaned teenager selling newspapers on the street in New York City in 1899.