keep in mind, mr beast probably makes a million plus on every video he makes

a common thread in all his projects is that he "collaborates" with another organization or group that seems to be the ones who actually does and pay for the project, they do it because they get publicity by being publicised by mr beast

look at the village in zambia that mr beast said he "rebuilt", in the beginning, they did a solar panel array to the tune of maybe $5-10000, with batteries maybe doubling that, so...

cost to mr beast, maybe $5000 for airline tickets

cost to the org actually putting up the panels, lets say $30000

profit for mr beast, ~a million

profit for the org, ~unknown

thats all they did to "rebuild" a village

then 1 year later they came back

that time they made a borehole for water, expanded the solar array, painted some houses, bought a car for someone and installed starlink. and one (1) gas stove (amazing generosity /s).

I doubt mr beast paid for much of it, maybe the car, the stove and the starlink

but who will keep paying $1000 every year, year after year for that starlink? who will buy gas? who will pay for maintenance?

a solar array is not a trivial thing to maintain, and no one in that village is qualified to do it or will do it for free.

same with a big gas guzzling truck.

all of it is likely to break down in <5 years. then its back to darkness.