• @[email protected]
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    1681 year ago

    I’m so fucking sick of all these billionaires “pledging” their fortunes. “I promise to donate all my wealth when I die” then fucking do it you cowards, die already.

    • @[email protected]
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      831 year ago

      They donate their wealth to avoid taxes. Basically their families control the foundations, they donate and avoid a whole shit ton of taxes their next of kin get the money from the foundation.

      Adam Conover did a video on it.

      • mommykink
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        231 year ago

        Now say this about Bill Gates and watch the downvotes pour in for… some reason

        • @[email protected]
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          331 year ago

          Eh, Gates is older and has shown more commitment to the idea than most. I still wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him but the foundation has done some good things for a long time. And maybe with fewer self-aggrandizing press stories compared to others.

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            1 year ago

            How do you go and, true to the expression, really throw someone?

            Does it imply throwing a human being as we’d throw a log? Perhaps a brick? I’d expect it involves a lot of physical strenght. And does it imply being from a stationary position?

            Does throwing someone down a window or from a moving car or perhaps a boat count?

            It intrigues me.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Left hand by the scruff, right hand by the belt, lift, swing forward, back, forward, and release. Easy :)

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        They give away all their money so they don’t have to give away some of their money. Then they commit crimes so their kids can… have the money they gave away to not give away.

        What a take lol

    • @[email protected]
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      361 year ago

      Let’s not forget, that while they “pLeDgE”, they are also literally fucking their workers at the same time and expect that it all cancels out…

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Was just gonna say its always some vague cause instead of an actual concrete thing they’re donating to.