▲ 861 ▼ A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by lledrtx@lemmy.world to c/workreform@lemmy.world 202 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago The Human Fund permalink fedilink source parent [–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Yes though initially it was contractually giving certain parts of its profit to children's fund foundation which existed before TCI and was a charity. After his divorce though the contractual donation was apparently cancelled. The aims written for the foundation all look nice but some are vaguely termed and I don't know to what effect were they able to (or try to) achieve it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Investment_Fund_Foundation permalink fedilink source parent
[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Yes though initially it was contractually giving certain parts of its profit to children's fund foundation which existed before TCI and was a charity. After his divorce though the contractual donation was apparently cancelled. The aims written for the foundation all look nice but some are vaguely termed and I don't know to what effect were they able to (or try to) achieve it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Investment_Fund_Foundation permalink fedilink source parent