• Bricktamland29@lemmy.world
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    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.

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        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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          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.

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