The most whitewashed billionaire in existence. Insane people still buy into this slush fund campaign.
Bill Gates is more evil than Elon Musk.
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Is this supposed to impress anyone?
I find it lovely that he's racked by guilt over his legacy and tries to do something about it.
Racked by guilt? His company is helping commit genocide by providing AI tools to automatically designate civilians as targets for military strikes.
I'd rather he keeps his money and uses his influence to stop that. He chooses not to do so every day.
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The sad thing is that even if he gives away 99% of his wealth he will still be obscenely rich. Multitudes richer than the average man.
That’s not necessarily sad. It can show all these billionaires that they will still be ridiculously wealthy without hoarding
But they'll drop hundreds of places on the leaderboard!
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...and still be a billionaire.
Why should oligarchs get to decide where the proceeds of their exploitation get spent?
~~Tax~~ Eat the rich!
Here's the thing. Even if he lives up to this promise, it's still him deciding where that money should go, and it won't be towards long term support of social safety nets for the commoners. He should just have been paying his fair share of taxes all along and into the future.
Yeah but that’s communism, so no way it would’ve ever happened. The average American voter thinks they can become billionaires some day.
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...or paying his employees more.
Funny how we don't have a popular term for the portion of an employee's deserved wage that turns into "record shareholder profit."
Imagine if all corporations were required to put a line item on check stubs showing how much you made them.
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This is him avoiding estate taxes, change my mind.
How much would his estate taxes be vs giving up 99% of his fortune?
I mean if I want my next of kin/whoever to get my money, it's better to do it while alive when you can get creative with the accounting. Especially when you've got Gates money and setting up something like a nonprofit is relatively easy.
Once you're dead and you've got this lump declared assets you're trying to pass on that Uncle Sam will take up to like 40% of.
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Based on current spending, it will most likely be spent getting drinkable water to the majority of the world’s population.
I don’t like how he got his money, but he’s been reasonably responsible with it since his divorce.
That said, he has over $113b dollars. If he gives away 99% of it, he’ll still have over a billion dollars.
Behind the bastards has a good two parter on him. I wouldn't say he's been responsible with it.
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He should open low cost private schools and libraries. We’re going to need them.
Don't even have to build new buildings in a lot of towns. Just renovate the Carnegie buildings that are still there.
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Sure, I'll do it after I'm dead.
Or maybe not. Guess you'll have to outlive him to find out if he's just a scummy billionaire like the rest.
Someone's public relations department is working overtime so Billy boy doesn't get eaten.
? This isn't the giving pledge, which is ALSO still active. The Gates Foundation is massively increasing its budget so it won't survive in perpetuity, trying to fill a portion of the gap created by the death of USAID.
There are many things to be mad about. This is not one of them.
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Here’s the thing
The billionaires stole their wealth from us.
They think we just want our money back.
When we just want billionaire blood.
I’d also like my money.
We’re never getting it all back. They are still stealing.
How much did they steal from your retirement accounts since January?
If we want justice we have to make it.
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And people believe him.
Even if he does he'll still have more money than most people earn in their whole life.
It is an obvious lie, right? Everyone can see that? It's blatant manipulation to improve his image while still maintaining a standard of life for him and his family of a KING for the next thousand years.
That is, if he's not just lying. You tracking his net worth daily with all the billionaire accountant tricks? Nope. I didn't think so.
Hey, guys! I'll give all "my" billions I made from hard work. In 2045 HE WILL BE 90! Thank you for the great sacrifice, Sir Gates!
Good guy bill, saw him also giving shit to Musk as well recently
Bill Gates accused Elon Musk of killing poor children as he announced Thursday that he would donate his remaining fortune to his charity
What a turn around from the 90's
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Doesn't that leave him still with something like $2 billion? I'm not knocking the philanthropy, but also, his safety net is going to remain about $2 billion dollars larger than ~~mine~~ most every other human being on this entire planet. And it will continue to accrue value at a higher rate than inflation as long as the good ol' American engine keeps on chugging along as normal.
From his vantage point, this sacrifice will likely impact neither his daily lifestyle nor his long-term comfort one iota.
It's a great thing he's doing, and I want to be clear about that. He's giving a boatload of money to charity. And I also don't know what else he might be doing with the remainder. I might be being an asshole. I haven't even read the article. I just saw that fuckin guy and the shining headline and had a strong reaction.
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and thats the thing there are some who could realistically give away 99% of thier wealth and still individually be rich beyond belief. I hope it spawns some Rockefeller thing where the rich realize they can eat thier cake and have it to, they can be unbelievably rich and donate unbelievable ammounts of wealth, leaving a huge, arguably postive mark on history.
I wouldn't for a second think or hope that he endures the distress of poverty or feeling needy given where he started - he has tried to do good with his fortune and that is good enough for me...he is doing what he can for the world around him and should be comfortable as he does so. I hope to find my own (much less extravagant) comfort some day.
I've been sending his chain emails along since the 90s so he owes me some serious interest.
enters the lottory
What? Is that not how this works?