Bill Gates vows to give away 99 per cent of his fortune by 2045
Bill Gates vows to give away 99 per cent of his fortune by 2045
“I will give away virtually all my wealth”: The Microsoft billionaire has pledged his foundation will distribute $US200 billion over the next 20 years.
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he has been milking that good will cow for decades
And it's working. His charity is extremely visible, while the public doesn't understand how much he took and deadweight lost with his monopoly.
It's like a burglar breaking your window, stealing your TV...
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Years pass...
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Here have a free TV! I am so generous!
But his charity works abroad a lot, so isn't it more like a burglar stealing your TV, selling it and buying lifesaving drugs for third world children for the money?
lobbying the gov for strict IP law, he buys pharma stock before awarding the contracts for buying all the drugs to make money on that as well
Billions in deadweight losses 30 years ago is part of why they aren't already making their own lifesaving drugs by now, and why the drugs are still so expensive. He stole their TV too.