Bill Gates vows to give away 99 per cent of his fortune by 2045

Can we quit running billionaire's PR campaigns for them? These people are not our friends, and giving back a portion of what they stole (always in the most public way) doesn't change that

To his charity? Oh Bill, you shouldn’t have. Go fucking die billionaire scum…

Sorry Bill but it’s too late and not enough. I still want to eat the rich and that includes you.

Although I‘ll admit if all billionaires did this instead of - oh you know - investing in fascism and actively dismembering democracy globally I might feel different about this. But as things stand I am done with billionaires. We cannot coexist. Simple as that.

Bullshit, he's "transferring" his wealth to his own charity for tax reasons...

It's a trick to protect his money for his children.

Tax Eat the rich!

Here's the thing. Even if he lives up to this promise, it's still him deciding where that money should go, and it won't be towards long term support of social safety nets for the commoners. He should just have been paying his fair share of taxes all along and into the future.

Still leaves him with just over $1 billion, enough for his great great grandchildren to live comfortably forever. Don’t be fooled, this is about tax breaks, not charity. Once you have over a billion in wealth, you’ve won the game of life. There’s nothing you can’t buy, there’s nothing you can do.

Maybe pay some fucking taxes first, Bill.

Using all his money and influence to advocate taxing the super rich significantly would be helpful.

Bill Gates deserves a lot of shit for creating the original big tech monopoly. But I'll say this about him: At least he's not hoarding his money to build a secretive compound to hold hundreds of kids he spawned with right wing crazy women for the purpose of creating a future master race.

I'll give him credit for it when it fucking happens

My tired brain read "99 cent" at first and I thought it was an article by The Onion.

he has been milking that good will cow for decades

Do it now motherfucker.

Gates is an unusual man who deserves a lot of praise. Most billionaires only want to build monuments to themselves. Gates has picked off a lot of projects that have virtually no chance of being funded by anyone or anything else. That's epic and legendary.

Though it’s better than hoarding, a billionaire can’t even give away their money without wielding a dangerous amount of influence on all of our lives.

While it's good that he's willing to give away 99%, he'd still be a billionaire and one of the richest persons of the world afterwards. He's so incomprehensibly rich that even 1% of his wealth is more than any single person should own.

Get fucked with a rusty rake bill, you helped stop the COVID vaccines from being patent exempt, among plenty of other awful shit, all for more money.

I've been sending his chain emails along since the 90s so he owes me some serious interest.

In 20 years, while still sitting on a mountain of money... All rich people are evil. The sooner people realize this, the better.

Bill Gates is 69. By 2045 he's going to be 89. What's he going to do with all that money at 89 anyways, after he kept it all his life.

I'll take whatever win I can get at this point. I just hope that it's actually going to good causes that will actually help people and not just bullshit money laundering "charity" shell games.

Why wait, just do it already.

Individuals hoarding wealth is bad for society.

Give it away now instead you piece of shit. If he actually gave a shit he would have donated it all to charities already. It's just a billionaire farse, fuck him and the rest of em.

...and still be a billionaire.

Why should oligarchs get to decide where the proceeds of their exploitation get spent?

The most whitewashed billionaire in existence. Insane people still buy into this slush fund campaign.

Bill Gates is more evil than Elon Musk.

Doesn't that leave him still with something like $2 billion? I'm not knocking the philanthropy, but also, his safety net is going to remain about $2 billion dollars larger than mine most every other human being on this entire planet. And it will continue to accrue value at a higher rate than inflation as long as the good ol' American engine keeps on chugging along as normal.

From his vantage point, this sacrifice will likely impact neither his daily lifestyle nor his long-term comfort one iota.

It's a great thing he's doing, and I want to be clear about that. He's giving a boatload of money to charity. And I also don't know what else he might be doing with the remainder. I might be being an asshole. I haven't even read the article. I just saw that fuckin guy and the shining headline and had a strong reaction.

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Is this supposed to impress anyone?

Bank Robber vows to give away his stolen funds by 20 years from now to charities of his choosing. He's one of the good ones! So uplifting!

Don't advertise scum. This guys is trying to literally spend 99% of his fortune to wipe off all the shit he has done.

Bill + Melinda Gates Foundation is a fun litmus test for leftists because you either have to claim (and secretly hope) Gates is a fraud or admit that not all billionaires are evil.
To the average non-leftist it is very obvious he cares about humanity and is doing his best to help it.

Why not hate on the billionaires who aren't giving away billions of dollars?

Sure, I'll do it after I'm dead.

Or maybe not. Guess you'll have to outlive him to find out if he's just a scummy billionaire like the rest.

Someone's public relations department is working overtime so Billy boy doesn't get eaten.

Plenury indulgences or a carefully structured set of trusts that he will hold shadow control of? Either way i suspect the man sees the wall coming and wishes to avoid being pushed up against it and shot.

The sad thing is that even if he gives away 99% of his wealth he will still be obscenely rich. Multitudes richer than the average man.

Here’s the thing

The billionaires stole their wealth from us.

They think we just want our money back.

When we just want billionaire blood.

too bad he vouched for vaccines to be only distrubted by the USA, which makes the cost high for poorer countries. people like him have an ulterior motives of what he is doing.

He should open low cost private schools and libraries. We’re going to need them.

And people believe him.

enters the lottory

What? Is that not how this works?

Lol

Bill Gates looks so old these days.

.... Can I have some?

I'll take some

Yeah, don't fucking care. He already enjoyed it, and he's told us for years he doesn't give a shit about his kids inheriting all his wealth.

Want to make a difference Bill? Don't wait 20 years. Give it all away right now, to Washington State and its charities. (Don't worry that money would immediately go to into the greater economy.)