That point is incorrect. Bill Gates' judgment is far from "arbitrary", judging both by the rigorous methodology used to spend the money and the results it's less to, and his billions have been better spent by him than would have been spent under almost any administration. It blows my mind that, given the relative records of the US government and Bill Gates himself, that you demand that only the "government assess need".
It's not his fault. He didn't do anything wrong by not solving all of society's problems. He just lives in a society whose government should change to taking more of his money and repairing the nation which his riches were made on the back of.
Yup, he has done more good than pretty much anyone on this forum has individually. He's also done far more bad than anyone has on this forum individually. That's the nature of having obscene, society-restructering amounts of wealth and power.
OP selectively quoted because being a manipulative cunts is in style now. Its amazing how much the left hates Trump, yet are willing to suck his flabby cock when it comes to copying his methods.
Yeah except Billy gets it wrong some times and his money harms people. The idiot gets it in his head that a quick fix for education reform is filling up classrooms with a laptop for every student and we end up live testing his every hairbrained unproven ideas with the only consequences being lost years of childrens formative education. All because he wants some techbro cool solution instead of funding anti-poverty programs.
Yea
He doesn't say that. Stop Trumping.
He literally talks about how there use to be a 70% taxation rate and how there are many ways to raise taxes and how he and other rich people should pay more. Not being exactly in favor of Warren's plan doesn't mean he's not in favor of paying more. Some of you are embarrassing yourselves. You've worked yourself up so much you can't even think straight about basic, easily understandable, shit
This is so insanely reductive, the man literally has more wealth now than when he started his philanthropy. He is not 'giving away half his money' in a way that actually leads to him losing any wealth at all.
TBH I am skeptical Warrens plan is constitutional. She is my preferred candidate, and while she would probably be able to significantly increase taxes on income, capital gains, etc..... there is no precedent for the government being able to tax existing wealth in the US as far as I know.
mans shouldnt joke like that.
Oh don't get me wrong Gates is scum. I was was inarticulately trying to make the point that philanthropy has nothing to do with what taxes ought be.
Yeah because we should spend more money on TV advertising and less on fighting malaria?
He doesn't actually 'give money away' in the traditional sense either. Much of his philanthropy is actually a form of investment. That's why he invests in things like charter schools and medical technologies and such, because they give returns on investment. He also exerts an incredible amount of control over the politics of many African nations who depend on his money.
Historically the wealthy turn to fascism when their money is threatened. Hence the saying "Scratch a Liberal and a Fascist bleeds".
*bitch eating crackers*
You do realize he spends millions of dollars to do things other than fight malaria, right? Things like pushing for the privatization of US schools and campaigning against unions.
Why do people on here keep doing this? Why post a source when you clearly haven't even watched it? Excusing poorly made threads as "I just quoted the link!" isn't a valid argument
...and you didn't fix it when pointed out.
Um, after he said he was joking he then said he is going to weigh who has the most professional approach to basically kissing his megarich ass. He's undecided. I'm not sure why you're trying to say otherwise or calling the OP's post the workings of a "manipulative cunt." There's nothing manipulative about what we are calling Gates out on here.
Yeah because when someone says they are going to vote for the more professional candidate... they obviously mean that they are considering Trump.
Why on earth would he waste vast amounts of money for an uncertain political outcome (as other Dem-supporting billionaires have found) and maybe nudge the system to make first-worlders richer when he could do what he's actually doing and put money to where it's most effective worldwide? Could you explain why really any cause in the US that he could materially affect would be more important than literally saving vast numbers of lives of children in much poorer countries?
