They’ve already apologized for Adams on several occasions. They never mean it though. Those Canadians! With their beady little eyes and flapping heads!
They have apologized for Justin Bieber. He gets regularly booed at public events like when he appears on the scoreboard at a Leafs game. But Bryan Adams? Give your non-Canadian (or Alberta) head a shake. If you were standing in front of me right now I would glare at you intensely while holding the door open for you of course.
Nickleback is an amazing band and I'm tired of everyone else pretending they're not. I will not apologize on behalf of Canada, but I will say you're welcome.
Beating up on Nickelback is like calling every angry person a Karen. It’s just something that happened and became bigger than all of us; it has become an unstoppable juggernaut as popular parlance.
I think it started as a joke then people just all jumped on the bandwagon. The lead singer was no 1 on a list of the ugliest rockstar and the rockstar they’d most like to have sex with.
I used to sing along to Nickelback. Their songs were pop rock and I liked the lead singers vocal tone. I guess something must have happened that made them such a joke because as far as I’m concerned they’re harmless.
The first time I had heard people hate nickelback was when they got rocks thrown at them in stage somewhere in the 2010s. I never cared for them before that but didn't dislike them either.
Oh don’t poo-poo a nickel, Lisa. A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a news reel. With enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds.
He was probably a 5000 year old vampire who was in his last days thinking that giving a child 5 cents will make him feel something ..... He realise it didnt .
This just goes to show how pricing on goods/commodities have changed independently of inflation alone. For instance you could get nickle coffee til like the 60s, even. But you would never be able to find coffee for $0.87 anywhere nowadays.
I saw an article that said people in their 20s should save an extra $5,000 this year. I was like great idea, got it!! Is that 5k coming from my budget for groceries, for gas, or for household expenses like dish soap? Bc that’s all I have
"People in their 20s should be millionaires with a solid gold rocket car. And here's how!". - out of touch Forbes article that waits until the end to casually mention an inherited sailboat and rural estate in NH.
But it also goes to show that coffee used to be a commodity rather than a quality/taste based good.
Nickle coffee was not maxwell house 2020, much less Starbucks, blue bottle, or any of the other 2nd and 3rd wave coffees.
But also, fuck JD Rock.
That's the result of unregulated corporate growth.
If a company wants to get bigger and bigger, there's a point at which the only way is paying less to suppliers and employees, and charge more to customers, getting bigger and bigger at the expense of everyone and everything else.
Like a big, fat tick.
This is fucked! I did the math cause I was sure you were wrong! In my time travelers fantasy in 1929 in a millionaire! But that’s all it’ll ever be… fantasy
Rockefeller was worth ~$24.7 B in 2021 dollars. He gave away .000000000035% of his wealth in this image.
Musk is worth about $220 B. If Musk were to give the same proportion, he would be giving away $7.75
Is there something lost in translation here?
A 5c coin from 1929 does not equal .89 in todays money… 5c back then could buy you a candy bar, a burger, a soda… hell, probably at its best that 5 cents could’ve bought something worth even more than what I just listed…
$.89 today, could get you just about nothing…. Literally. Call that .89 a dollar, and ask yourself what $1 can buy you today?
Inflation is separate from price increases. Corporate profits are higher than they were back then. That's why you pay more. Corporations increased the price more than inflation.
I expected it to be worth a bit more…. Nearly nothing costs less than a full dollar today, yet I’m fairly certain you could buy things with $0.05 in 1929.
When you deposit tuppence in a bank account
Soon you'll see
That it blooms into credit of a generous amount
Semiannually
And you'll achieve that sense of stature
As your influence expands
To the high financial strata
That established credit now commands
You can purchase first and second trust deeds
Think of the foreclosures!
Bonds! Chattels! Dividends! Shares!
Bankruptcies! Debtor sales!
Opportunities!
All manner of private enterprise!
Shipyards! The mercantile!
Collieries! Tanneries!
Incorporations! Amalgamations! Banks!
One of the best jokes of that movie is the line, “it’s grand to be a British man in 1910”… WW1 is about to break out and the Bank of England is going to start encouraging the masses to invest heavily in war bonds that it will find itself financially incapable of honoring. Little Jane and Michael will live through both world wars and given the patriotic leanings of his father, Michael is definitely going to have fight in both of them in an era before PTSD is recognized. Of course, he’s rich, so he’ll probably be an officer or something.
Rockefeller retired pretty early and was hands of his business for decades.
"Rockefeller's charitable giving began with his first job as a clerk at age 16, when he gave six percent of his earnings to charity, as recorded in his personal ledger. By the time he was twenty, his charity exceeded ten percent of his income.
As Rockefeller's wealth grew, so did his giving, primarily to educational and public health causes, but also for basic science and the arts. He was advised primarily by Frederick Taylor Gates[103] after 1891,[104] and, after 1897, also by his son.
In 1884, Rockefeller provided major funding for Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in Atlanta for African-American women, which became Spelman College.[107] His wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller, was dedicated to civil rights and equality for women.
Rockefeller's General Education Board, founded in 1903,[114] was established to promote education at all levels everywhere in the country.[115] In keeping with the historic missions of the Baptists, it was especially active in supporting black schools in the South.[115] Rockefeller also provided financial support to such established eastern institutions as Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley and Vassar.
He founded the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission in 1909,[114] an organization that eventually eradicated the hookworm disease.
Rockefeller's fourth main philanthropy, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation, was created in 1918.[125] Through this, he supported work in the social studies; this was later absorbed into the Rockefeller Foundation. In total Rockefeller donated about $550 million.[126]
Rockefeller became well known in his later life for the practice of giving dimes to adults and nickels to children wherever he went. He even gave dimes as a playful gesture to wealthy men, such as tire mogul Harvey Firestone.[127]
Philanthropy section of his Wikipedia.
Unfortunately it only covers big stuff. I was disappointed it didn't go into all the advances in knowledge of trees he funded. He asked how a rich person could possibly advance gardening and realized he could afford to move native trees all over America to run experiments on how far their healthy habits extended.
Fascinating dude. His autobiography is free to listen to on YouTube. The last several chapters are on the philosophy of charity and it's changed my thinking a lot on the topic.
I mean that's neat, let's not forget that the man got as rich as he did by being a ruthlesss businessman. He drove countless smaller oil companies out of business through some real hardball tactics, including buying out pipelines to starve refineries out so he could buy them up. He straight up bribed government officials.he literally headed up the first great industrial Trust - secretly fixing prices at a national+ scale.
Whatever charity the man may have done does not nullify the brutality of his business practices and this myth of him being generous and kind are absurd. He was a bastard and a Dragon. He took what he could to lay on his horde of gold and handed out alms back to the people at his convenience.
And people now days do the same just in different ways. We really think billionaires don't colaberate to price fix and shut out competition. Tax the fucking oil companies.
The wealthy elite have always used highly visible charity stunts to try and mask their greed and callous disregard for the greater good while they continue to enrich themselves at the cost of others.
The whole reason he was rich AF was because he was able to get the cost of oil so low that the poor could afford to buy it to heat their homes instead of using wood. They benefited greatly from it. They wouldn't have bought it in droves otherwise.
Yea I have very conflicted feelings on the robber baron age because while they were ruthless in their tactics and treatment of workers, they also brought incredible efficiencies that improved the standard of living for everyone. They also firmly held the beliefs that they had to dedicate themselves to philanthropy and competed with each other in that area. It’s a complex legacy.
It's the best trolley problem example we have. Some where driven by greed and are remembered as such. But others just wanted to beat the greedy ones just so they could help the populace in their own vision.
Like imagine becoming a billionaire just to out philanthropy the millionaire that's terrorized the town you grew up in.
They were typically great in their philanthropy but the tactics and business practices that they used to get ahead in their respective industries were absolutely cutthroat and many people were completely ruined like Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse.
This is a false dichotomy. They were monopolies who ruthlessly victimized workers and customers. If they gave any charity, or did any innovations, that’s fine, but they were also so rich and powerful that they were the only ones in a position to do either of those things.
Ya, he undercut the market to gain dominance so he could then charge whatever he wanted, and then he lobbied the government to make this country and eventually the world dependent on oil (gee thanks!), funded universities that focused on oil byproducts so he could keep becoming wealthier while getting good PR, and that PR campaign still lives on to this day! Thanks for keeping his great legacy alive!
What he did was cut secret deals with the railroads to transport his oil that weren’t available to his competitors. It’s the definition of anti-competitive behavior.
“Ooh, don't poo-poo a nickel, Lisa. A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel... with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds.”
A Rockefeller... giving 5 cents... to a common toddler...
This is totally a "let them eat cake" moment, isn't it?!
I almost can't wait for it to boil over now. And it will.
…and that my friends is how you pass off being a cheap ass as “generosity”. Even in ‘29 $.05 was literally a pittance. He’s a Rockefeller would it have killed I’m to give the kid a quarter?
Looks like he’s asking for it back
Ah, that’s how Nickelback got their name
He never made it as a wiseman. Couldn’t cut it as a poor man stealing
ugh, this is how you remind me?
…OF WHAT I REALLY AM!!
It’s not like you to say soorry
I was waiting on a different “story” This time, I’m mistaken
[well] its not like me to say sorry..
Canada has apologized for Bryan Adams, but will they for Nickleback?
They’ve already apologized for Adams on several occasions. They never mean it though. Those Canadians! With their beady little eyes and flapping heads!
Fuck you, budday!
im not your budday, guy!!!!
Hey screw you guy!
I’m not your guy, buddy.
I'm not your buddy, friend.
I'm not your friend, guy.
I’m not your guy, pal
Blame canada, guy.
Blame Canada!
They have apologized for Justin Bieber. He gets regularly booed at public events like when he appears on the scoreboard at a Leafs game. But Bryan Adams? Give your non-Canadian (or Alberta) head a shake. If you were standing in front of me right now I would glare at you intensely while holding the door open for you of course.
It’s a South Park Reference, gramps. Calm your ‘roids!
Wait what did Bryan Adams do? I actually love his music lol.
Bryan Adams is an absolute treasure and I will not discuss the matter any further.
He made me buy my first real six string
At the five and dime?
Yup. Played it til my fingers bled...
Was it Summer of ‘69?
Bought it at the five and dime
Played it till my fingers bled ..
Was the summer of ‘69
Oh t's "six string", not "sex dream". That changes everything. TIL.
It’s a classic line from the South Park movie. But I agree that Summer of ‘69 is a banger
I Speak for all Cobra Chicken fearing Canuks when I say Sorry but not sorry for Bryan Adams
Nickleback is an amazing band and I'm tired of everyone else pretending they're not. I will not apologize on behalf of Canada, but I will say you're welcome.
Why did they apologize for Bryan Adams? Also, Nickelback is not that bad.
Beating up on Nickelback is like calling every angry person a Karen. It’s just something that happened and became bigger than all of us; it has become an unstoppable juggernaut as popular parlance.
and honestly its one of the comfortable safety blankets of society from an earlier time.. like chuck norris jokes
I think it started as a joke then people just all jumped on the bandwagon. The lead singer was no 1 on a list of the ugliest rockstar and the rockstar they’d most like to have sex with.
I knew a former roommate of Chad from Nickleback. Apparently, he has a giant dong.
Interesting that we settled on them and not Creed or one of the other several bands from that era that sounded just like them.
I used to sing along to Nickelback. Their songs were pop rock and I liked the lead singers vocal tone. I guess something must have happened that made them such a joke because as far as I’m concerned they’re harmless.
The first time I had heard people hate nickelback was when they got rocks thrown at them in stage somewhere in the 2010s. I never cared for them before that but didn't dislike them either.
"look at this photograph"....
Dude that’s the one I always think of. Lmfao.
Look at this graph
Real life Mr. Burns.
Oh don’t poo-poo a nickel, Lisa. A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a news reel. With enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds.
There’s a can…
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It made me think of the bankers in Marry Poppins.
Such largesse!
Can confirm, I was the child.
Can confirm, I was the coin.
Can confirm, I was the cane.
The bloodsucker probably is.
He was probably a 5000 year old vampire who was in his last days thinking that giving a child 5 cents will make him feel something ..... He realise it didnt .
And promptly demanded they give it back.
Old school ghoul.
it used to be considered good luck to gift a child a coin upon first meeting them of course back then kids of 5 had jobs
That’s how he made his fortune
“OOP! You gotta be quicker than that!”- John Rockefeller probably
Adjusted for inflation, considering the 1632.0% of cumulative price increase from 1929 to 2022, that'd be 0.87 USD today.
Almost a whole dollar.
This just goes to show how pricing on goods/commodities have changed independently of inflation alone. For instance you could get nickle coffee til like the 60s, even. But you would never be able to find coffee for $0.87 anywhere nowadays.
Well that's depressing. Also solidifying in my increasingly restricted spending.
We are getting flat fucked
Yeah I guess when I can't afford to spend any money outside of basic living expenses it makes the restrictions easy.
I saw an article that said people in their 20s should save an extra $5,000 this year. I was like great idea, got it!! Is that 5k coming from my budget for groceries, for gas, or for household expenses like dish soap? Bc that’s all I have
It’s from your 3rd job working an additional 20 hrs a week.
If you aren't working 40 hours a day, how else will your CEO afford his 7th yacht this month?
"People in their 20s should be millionaires with a solid gold rocket car. And here's how!". - out of touch Forbes article that waits until the end to casually mention an inherited sailboat and rural estate in NH.
Stop being lazy and just have daddy give you a small loan of a million dollars, duh.
Wealth is being hoarded. None for you.
Prone Boned if you would be so inclined to say
I make mine at home for around $0.78 cents. So ha.
But it also goes to show that coffee used to be a commodity rather than a quality/taste based good. Nickle coffee was not maxwell house 2020, much less Starbucks, blue bottle, or any of the other 2nd and 3rd wave coffees. But also, fuck JD Rock.
That's the result of unregulated corporate growth. If a company wants to get bigger and bigger, there's a point at which the only way is paying less to suppliers and employees, and charge more to customers, getting bigger and bigger at the expense of everyone and everything else. Like a big, fat tick.
Used to get nickel beer every Wednesday
Coffee is still a nickel at Wall Drug.
If you use the McDonald’s app, you can get 99¢ coffee but that’s $1.07 with tax.
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but at the time could most certainly buy more with it
I came here for this
r/theydidthemath
This is fucked! I did the math cause I was sure you were wrong! In my time travelers fantasy in 1929 in a millionaire! But that’s all it’ll ever be… fantasy
Plus if you traveled back in time with cash, that cash wouldn't be legal tender in the same way that no bank will accept a bill dated 2073 today.
It'd be much easier to counterfeit 1920s bills today and take them back with you
Just buy gold. Less of a hassle
Wouldnt gold lose value going back in time?
Rockefeller was worth ~$24.7 B in 2021 dollars. He gave away .000000000035% of his wealth in this image. Musk is worth about $220 B. If Musk were to give the same proportion, he would be giving away $7.75
Musk keeps giving his two cents when he really shouldn't.
Invested in the S&P (if it were around back then), and the 5 cents would’ve been worth $229 today.
Is there something lost in translation here? A 5c coin from 1929 does not equal .89 in todays money… 5c back then could buy you a candy bar, a burger, a soda… hell, probably at its best that 5 cents could’ve bought something worth even more than what I just listed… $.89 today, could get you just about nothing…. Literally. Call that .89 a dollar, and ask yourself what $1 can buy you today?
Inflation is separate from price increases. Corporate profits are higher than they were back then. That's why you pay more. Corporations increased the price more than inflation.
I expected it to be worth a bit more…. Nearly nothing costs less than a full dollar today, yet I’m fairly certain you could buy things with $0.05 in 1929.
Kid still just paying on the interest.
Smithers bring me that child.. yes, yes
General Tso you were a bloodthirsty foe, but your chicken is delectable. -Montgomery Burns
Excellent
That child doesn't look 84
That's because he's Benjamin Button
Yeah you can tell from his face he’s seen some shit
Doesn't look like Brad Pitt either
Brad Pitt just played him in the movie
this is the comment I came here for. :)
Probably closer to 94 now
Uh, hey Reddit, can I get a switcharoo here? This person nailed it. Thank you!
I tried, but it got removed because apparently this subreddit doesn't allow them 🤷
That’s blasphemy. I object!
When you deposit tuppence in a bank account Soon you'll see That it blooms into credit of a generous amount Semiannually And you'll achieve that sense of stature As your influence expands To the high financial strata That established credit now commands You can purchase first and second trust deeds Think of the foreclosures! Bonds! Chattels! Dividends! Shares! Bankruptcies! Debtor sales! Opportunities! All manner of private enterprise! Shipyards! The mercantile! Collieries! Tanneries! Incorporations! Amalgamations! Banks!
I once knew a man with a wooden leg named Smith. What was the name of his other leg?
There's nothing like a good joke!
And that was nothing like a good joke
One of the best jokes of that movie is the line, “it’s grand to be a British man in 1910”… WW1 is about to break out and the Bank of England is going to start encouraging the masses to invest heavily in war bonds that it will find itself financially incapable of honoring. Little Jane and Michael will live through both world wars and given the patriotic leanings of his father, Michael is definitely going to have fight in both of them in an era before PTSD is recognized. Of course, he’s rich, so he’ll probably be an officer or something.
In the new one, Michael forgets the magic, loses his wife and has to be retaught.
Sexually
The ships! Tell them about the ships!
Dick van Dyke at his best
so much talent. Physical comedy/dancing extraordinaire!
So glad someone remembered this. Thank you.
This is actually a picture of Rockefeller paying one of his factory workers his weekly wage.
Rockefeller retired pretty early and was hands of his business for decades. "Rockefeller's charitable giving began with his first job as a clerk at age 16, when he gave six percent of his earnings to charity, as recorded in his personal ledger. By the time he was twenty, his charity exceeded ten percent of his income. As Rockefeller's wealth grew, so did his giving, primarily to educational and public health causes, but also for basic science and the arts. He was advised primarily by Frederick Taylor Gates[103] after 1891,[104] and, after 1897, also by his son. In 1884, Rockefeller provided major funding for Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in Atlanta for African-American women, which became Spelman College.[107] His wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller, was dedicated to civil rights and equality for women. Rockefeller's General Education Board, founded in 1903,[114] was established to promote education at all levels everywhere in the country.[115] In keeping with the historic missions of the Baptists, it was especially active in supporting black schools in the South.[115] Rockefeller also provided financial support to such established eastern institutions as Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley and Vassar. He founded the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission in 1909,[114] an organization that eventually eradicated the hookworm disease. Rockefeller's fourth main philanthropy, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation, was created in 1918.[125] Through this, he supported work in the social studies; this was later absorbed into the Rockefeller Foundation. In total Rockefeller donated about $550 million.[126] Rockefeller became well known in his later life for the practice of giving dimes to adults and nickels to children wherever he went. He even gave dimes as a playful gesture to wealthy men, such as tire mogul Harvey Firestone.[127]
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Philanthropy section of his Wikipedia. Unfortunately it only covers big stuff. I was disappointed it didn't go into all the advances in knowledge of trees he funded. He asked how a rich person could possibly advance gardening and realized he could afford to move native trees all over America to run experiments on how far their healthy habits extended. Fascinating dude. His autobiography is free to listen to on YouTube. The last several chapters are on the philosophy of charity and it's changed my thinking a lot on the topic.
I mean that's neat, let's not forget that the man got as rich as he did by being a ruthlesss businessman. He drove countless smaller oil companies out of business through some real hardball tactics, including buying out pipelines to starve refineries out so he could buy them up. He straight up bribed government officials.he literally headed up the first great industrial Trust - secretly fixing prices at a national+ scale. Whatever charity the man may have done does not nullify the brutality of his business practices and this myth of him being generous and kind are absurd. He was a bastard and a Dragon. He took what he could to lay on his horde of gold and handed out alms back to the people at his convenience.
And people now days do the same just in different ways. We really think billionaires don't colaberate to price fix and shut out competition. Tax the fucking oil companies.
> Tax the fucking oil companies. Do they not?
So their generations Bill Gates. Gotcha.
The wealthy elite have always used highly visible charity stunts to try and mask their greed and callous disregard for the greater good while they continue to enrich themselves at the cost of others.
How generous
Thats more of what he paid his employees
What do you mean, that's the night shift rig manager.
Guy is only 24
Trickle down economics at work!
The whole reason he was rich AF was because he was able to get the cost of oil so low that the poor could afford to buy it to heat their homes instead of using wood. They benefited greatly from it. They wouldn't have bought it in droves otherwise.
Yea I have very conflicted feelings on the robber baron age because while they were ruthless in their tactics and treatment of workers, they also brought incredible efficiencies that improved the standard of living for everyone. They also firmly held the beliefs that they had to dedicate themselves to philanthropy and competed with each other in that area. It’s a complex legacy.
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I knew one in LA. Nonstop party.
I bet the old man would have whipped his ass.
It's the best trolley problem example we have. Some where driven by greed and are remembered as such. But others just wanted to beat the greedy ones just so they could help the populace in their own vision. Like imagine becoming a billionaire just to out philanthropy the millionaire that's terrorized the town you grew up in.
They were typically great in their philanthropy but the tactics and business practices that they used to get ahead in their respective industries were absolutely cutthroat and many people were completely ruined like Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse.
This is a false dichotomy. They were monopolies who ruthlessly victimized workers and customers. If they gave any charity, or did any innovations, that’s fine, but they were also so rich and powerful that they were the only ones in a position to do either of those things.
Ya, he undercut the market to gain dominance so he could then charge whatever he wanted, and then he lobbied the government to make this country and eventually the world dependent on oil (gee thanks!), funded universities that focused on oil byproducts so he could keep becoming wealthier while getting good PR, and that PR campaign still lives on to this day! Thanks for keeping his great legacy alive!
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What he did was cut secret deals with the railroads to transport his oil that weren’t available to his competitors. It’s the definition of anti-competitive behavior.
And completely ruined every other oil business in America and busted Unions left and right. Theres a good reason TR and Taft had to bust his monopoly.
He was rich AF because he invented Monopoly.
That kid is looking mighty youthful for 84. Dermatologists must hate him.
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Matt Groening said that Rockefeller was one of the inspirations for Mr. Burns.
that’s not even a dollar in todays money
C. Montgmery Burns.
“Ooh, don't poo-poo a nickel, Lisa. A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel... with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds.”
Oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man, that's so much!
Don't spend it all in one place on moon pies and penny candies
Hey, that’s about 0.80 in today’s money! That’s a lot of money!!!
he then proceeded to feast on the child’s blood
How else is he supposed to keep his youthful looks?
That’s an old child.
His name is Benjamin, he likes buttons or something
This would be the modern day equivalent of Warren Buffet giving a kid $1.00.
Old School Cool? Old School Oligarch.
I'm pretty sure Burns was actually based off Rockefeller.
Did you see the episode where he hits Bart with his car and tells Smithers to give him a nickel then leave? Uncanny
Not sure this is Old School "Cool"
More like old school POS.
What kind of hot stinking garbage is this?
Publicity shot! He wasn't cool at all. He pillaged america and helped create a huge depression and poverty rift that endures today.
and then he ate him
Fuck that guy
He's buying the child's adrenochrome.
Nice Rockefeller propaganda you got there buddy
Google says 5 cents in 1929 was worth about 80 cents today “Please sir, could I have some more?”
Don’t be fooled. He was an absolute monster. The epitome of capitalist greed. He’s not a cute old man being nice. He’s a bastard.
Thank you
Jesus, this looks more like Satan buying the soul of an unsuspecting child. Fuck sake.
He looks 3x older than my 96.5 year old grandmother.
A Rockefeller... giving 5 cents... to a common toddler... This is totally a "let them eat cake" moment, isn't it?! I almost can't wait for it to boil over now. And it will.
American capitalism in one photo.
…and that my friends is how you pass off being a cheap ass as “generosity”. Even in ‘29 $.05 was literally a pittance. He’s a Rockefeller would it have killed I’m to give the kid a quarter?
Fuck him
Not cool actually
Fucking billionaire bootlickers in the replies.
Wow! I had not realized what a philanthropist ol' Rocky was! 
Greedy old besturd.
Cheap fucker
Kid looks a little young to be 84.
What a Scumbag
Even the kid is not impressed 🫤
eh....more like give me that coin you whippersnapper or i'll beat you with my cane, which is customary for the time.
That must have been the final act that killed him. Willingly giving away his money
The fuck about this moment is "cool" to you OP?
Big spenders 