• @Perfide@reddthat.com
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    11810 months 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.

    • @Bricktamland29@lemmy.world
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      4410 months 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.

      • PP_GIRL_
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        1110 months ago

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

        • @Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world
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          2010 months 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.

          • qyron
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            10 months 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.

            • @stjobe@lemmy.world
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              210 months ago

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