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Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' (finance.yahoo.com)
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If your dad is Bill Gates, you're probably not getting a Starbucks gift card for graduating college.

In 2018, Jennifer Gates walked off the Stanford stage and onto a 124-acre, $15.82 million horse farm in North Salem, New York. According to Architectural Digest, the lavish estate was a graduation gift from her billionaire parents—and came complete with rolling pastures, three parcels of land, and proximity to New York City for her future studies.

But in case that sounds too much like the plot of "Succession: Equestrian Edition," Melinda Gates would like to remind everyone: their kids were absolutely raised "middle class."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If you still control how it is spent, are you really giving it away?

Actually yeah. You can't just give a billion to an organization. Most of the organizations that receive money have the capacity to handle millions at most. Anything above that would just sit on their bank accounts because they'd have to scale up massively.

The amount of money the Gates Foundation is handling requires so much managing that they have 2000 employees.

I suggest to read up on what they are actually doing:

It's quite altruistic in nature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Giving it away allows other people to decide what to do with it.

Gates is in full control of what he "gives" away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I literally explained why it is set up like that. Except for the part where they use money of the foundation to make more money for the foundation.

Gates is in full control of what he “gives” away.

And rightfully so. The foundation is always looking for organizations to give grants to. You can't just give it all away randomly. To give away so much money you need to put it somewhere where it can be distributed fairly. Which is exactly what the foundation is doing.

The only real argument you can have against Gates is whether or not he should be giving even more. But that is not the best argument because he still is giving away much more than people more wealthy as him.