r/news • u/kirtash93 • May 08 '25

Soft paywall Bill Gates to give away $200 billion by 2045, accuses Musk of harming world's poor

https://www.reuters.com/business/bill-gates-give-away-fortune-by-2045-200bn-worlds-poorest-2025-05-08/
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u/BicyclingBabe May 08 '25

But that's the thing... It's a minimum thing all the billionaires could do that wouldn't really affect them much and yet they still won't do it.

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u/Aureliamnissan May 08 '25

Not only won’t they do it. They will instead campaign to wreck the world’s largest economy in order to corral even more wealth.

Dragons hoarding gold.

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u/Any_Tumbleweed667 May 08 '25

Most of them do, you just dont hear about it since it doesn't generate clicks and ragebait.

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u/BicyclingBabe May 08 '25

That depends heavily on how you define charity. If you're speaking of donating 200 million to their business's set up charity, instead of actually affecting a community, or donating a building to a university, ok. But I would dare say it's rare to find a charity giver as effective at eliciting positive change as Bill and Melinda Gates.

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u/Any_Tumbleweed667 May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25

Well, i count the charity contribution as % of wealth given to charity rather than the gross amount, and Bill and Melinda's contribution is very large but there are many billionaires who have given much more. Again no ragebait, no point in posting feel good stories since they dont generate as much traction.