~~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.

Bullshit, he's "transferring" his wealth to his own charity for tax reasons...

It's a trick to protect his money for his children.

I've been sending his chain emails along since the 90s so he owes me some serious interest.

...and still be a billionaire.

Why should oligarchs get to decide where the proceeds of their exploitation get spent?

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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Get fucked with a rusty rake bill, you helped stop the COVID vaccines from being patent exempt, among plenty of other awful shit, all for more money.

Give it away now instead you piece of shit. If he actually gave a shit he would have donated it all to charities already. It's just a billionaire farse, fuck him and the rest of em.

Why wait, just do it already.

Individuals hoarding wealth is bad for society.

Maybe pay some fucking taxes first, Bill.

The most whitewashed billionaire in existence. Insane people still buy into this slush fund campaign.

Bill Gates is more evil than Elon Musk.

Is this supposed to impress anyone?

Do it now motherfucker.

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.

he has been milking that good will cow for decades

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.

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

Bank Robber vows to give away his stolen funds by 20 years from now to charities of his choosing. He's one of the good ones! So uplifting!

Bill Gates deserves a lot of shit for creating the original big tech monopoly. But I'll say this about him: At least he's not hoarding his money to build a secretive compound to hold hundreds of kids he spawned with right wing crazy women for the purpose of creating a future master race.

Don't advertise scum. This guys is trying to literally spend 99% of his fortune to wipe off all the shit he has done.

Why not hate on the billionaires who aren't giving away billions of dollars?

I'll give him credit for it when it fucking happens

To his charity? Oh Bill, you shouldn’t have. Go fucking die billionaire scum…

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.

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.

Though it’s better than hoarding, a billionaire can’t even give away their money without wielding a dangerous amount of influence on all of our lives.

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.

I'll take whatever win I can get at this point. I just hope that it's actually going to good causes that will actually help people and not just bullshit money laundering "charity" shell games.

Using all his money and influence to advocate taxing the super rich significantly would be helpful.

He should open low cost private schools and libraries. We’re going to need them.

enters the lottory

What? Is that not how this works?

And people believe him.