Why not hate on the billionaires who aren't giving away billions of dollars?
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Because he isn't doing anything either. He promised to get rid of it in 20 years.
First, he's a psychopath, I don't trust a word he says. Additionally, in 20 years he'll be almost 90. Aka huge chance he'll be actually dead of old age.
And last, you don't get to fuck the world for decades and then suddenly become a good person because you promise to stop being a shitstain in another 2 decades.
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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.
Gates is an unusual man who deserves a lot of praise. Most billionaires only want to build monuments to themselves. Gates has picked off a lot of projects that have virtually no chance of being funded by anyone or anything else. That's epic and legendary.
Agreed.
We eat him last.
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To his charity? Oh Bill, you shouldn’t have. Go fucking die billionaire scum…
My tired brain read "99 cent" at first and I thought it was an article by The Onion.
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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.
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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.
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In 20 years, while still sitting on a mountain of money... All rich people are evil. The sooner people realize this, the better.
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Plenury indulgences or a carefully structured set of trusts that he will hold shadow control of? Either way i suspect the man sees the wall coming and wishes to avoid being pushed up against it and shot.
.... Can I have some?
I think if you go to Africa and start an NGO working with Malaria, then yes.