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Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth

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Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth

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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth

The Institute for Policy Studies’ report “The Giving Pledge at 15” finds that the initiative remains mostly unfulfilled.

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The only good billionaire is a dead billionaire whose stolen wealth has been returned to the people
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  Does that mean Gates will be “good” if he spends all his money on vaccines and then dies of natural causes?

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