> She is an existence proof that a now-inevitable extreme inequality regime is not by construction maximally cynical and extractive.

MacKenzie Scott's philanthropy is great, and I'm both glad she exists and glad that her existence apparently upsets the Garry Tans and the Elon Musks of the world, but I don't think this conclusion is the take away at all.

She's an anomaly in the system, not proof that the system isn't horrendously harmful.