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To his kids and their charities? Reminder that Bill gates is every bit as exploitative and evil, he didn’t become a billionaire by paying fair wages. This is all PR to try and save his reputation as everyone turns on billionaires. Like buffet, he just shuffles his money to his kids and calls it charity
Can we quit running billionaire's PR campaigns for them? These people are not our friends, and giving back a portion of what they stole (always in the most public way) doesn't change that
Don't give it away.
If you really want to help people, buy media, buy politicans and get REAL change that will actually last.
You giving money to random charities does fuck all, except give you tax breaks.
We need change in the political system so that we don't need fucking charities for basic needs.
If you really want to help people, buy media, buy politicans and get REAL change that will actually last.
Did he stutter?
He does give money to politicians and the Gates Foundation does as well:
Still leaves him with just over $1 billion, enough for his great great grandchildren to live comfortably forever. Don’t be fooled, this is about tax breaks, not charity. Once you have over a billion in wealth, you’ve won the game of life. There’s nothing you can’t buy, there’s nothing you can do.
Is it really about tax breaks, when the US doesn't have a wealth tax? Would it prevent his children from dealing with inheritance tax?
My tired brain read "99 cent" at first and I thought it was an article by The Onion.
Sorry Bill but it’s too late and not enough. I still want to eat the rich and that includes you.
Although I‘ll admit if all billionaires did this instead of - oh you know - investing in fascism and actively dismembering democracy globally I might feel different about this. But as things stand I am done with billionaires. We cannot coexist. Simple as that.
Isn't he literally the only billionaire who has been donating a lot over the years?
But yes, fully agree. There's no reason any person should be that rich. They're cause and symptom of a fucked-up system
Absolutely not. I think others give a bit less, but they’re just not public about it.
Warren Buffet makes $5B annual donations to charities. He’s an investor, so if he gave it all out as a lump sum, he wouldn’t be able to make more to donate next year (and aside total received, many charities work better with consistent yearly funding)
How did he get to be a billionaire? By standing on the throats of others, he could not have created that wealth without harm.
Yes I'm not disagreeing
While it's good that he's willing to give away 99%, he'd still be a billionaire and one of the richest persons of the world afterwards. He's so incomprehensibly rich that even 1% of his wealth is more than any single person should own.
I think it’s one of those situations where he’s using percentages for a reason.
Using all his money and influence to advocate taxing the super rich significantly would be helpful.
He does actually. https://observer.com/2024/09/bill-gates-bernie-sanders-tax-wealthy/
He and warren are some of the smarter billionaires, they realize having infinite money is not actually very useful.
Not to say there's any thing good about there being billionaires in the first place, but there is a spectrum.
Buffet has rescinded his giving in favour of leaving a trust to kids...who are senior citizens. If you cant stand on your own by then, you dont deserve to make it.
His son recently gave half a billion to Ukraine, out of pocket. I get the impression they At least have their minds on the right side of history.
What would be great is if the trust is designed to be given to charities, rather than for his kin’s space flights. But they may do that anyway.
The other gave money so he could ride along with ICE
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I'll give him credit for it when it fucking happens
Bill Gates is 69. By 2045 he's going to be 89. What's he going to do with all that money at 89 anyways, after he kept it all his life.
These people usually give it to their children to establish modern nobility.
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