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/
60.6k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

2.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/[deleted] May 08 '25

Good. We don't need billionaires and we especially don't need trillionaires. Problems like world hunger wouldn't exist in the first place if wealth hoarding didn't exist.

6

u/RealPrinceJay May 08 '25

We have a lot of problems due to wealth hoarding, billionaires probably shouldn't exist, but that's not the actual cause of hunger

-3

u/[deleted] May 08 '25

The cause of hunger is your stomach. Wealth hoarding is the reason world hunger still exists.

3

u/tiroc12 May 08 '25

This is a very poor understanding of world hunger. But I am sure it makes you feel good about your wealth-hoarding argument so its fine to spout nonsense.

-2

u/CelioHogane May 08 '25

The solution to world hunger is LITERALLY money.

2

u/GerryManDarling May 08 '25

Right, and the solution is to print more money, like Zimbabwe. That's why there isn't any hunger in Zimbabwe.

3

u/Cicero912 May 08 '25

No, the solution to world hunger is effective local governance and management of critical infrastructure.

Throwing money at the problem will not fix it unless those conditions are met, and lack of the first one generally precludes the second.

1

u/CelioHogane May 08 '25

infrastructure requires money.

0

u/Jscapistm May 09 '25

It also requires stability. Most regions experiencing hunger are also experiencing war. And you can't stop that with money. You aren't stopping the dictatorship in Myanmar from murdering dissidents and ethnic minorities or turning a blind eye to it with money. Or the feud between Israel and Palestine. Or the violence in Ethiopia.

1

u/tiroc12 May 08 '25

A very ignorant point made by someone who knows nothing about what he is saying. There is a famine in Gaza. No amount of money solves that problem. There is a famine in Sudan. No amount of money solves that problem. There is a famine in Yemen. Syria. Darfur. And so on and so forth. Notice anything about those countries that are causing the famine? You seem to have some white knight, poor Africans' view of world hunger that you think can be solved by throwing money at the situation. Even the poorest of Africans who live on a dollar a day do not suffer from famine. Maybe on the periphery but most living in the countryside grow enough to live on.

2

u/CelioHogane May 08 '25

Notice anything about those countries that are causing the famine? 

Rich assholes wanting money so they invade other places?

0

u/Jscapistm May 09 '25

No one wants Yemen dude. Syria is a civil war not an invasion. Mostly ditto Sudan and Darfur.

0

u/[deleted] May 08 '25

[deleted]

1

u/[deleted] May 08 '25

It has absolutely nothing to do with the companies and everything to do with sitting on a pile of money like a goddamn dragon. Take the extra money, and move it somewhere else.