BS.. you dont announce it and then spend 20 years dolling out TINY TINY ...... TINY grants with a ''promise'' to give it all out at death.
He really IS like Lex Luthor, eh?
If this were a real thing he'd give 40 billion to Darpa for clean energy research
We don't need research, we need implementation. Geo-Thermal Energy is clean, constant, literally everywhere and most importantly, we already know how to do it. The thing is, for some reason, it gets ignored (despite the fact that Iceland runs on it 100%).
.. 30 billion to something like UNICEF .. 30 billion to cancer research and children's hospitals
I totally agree with this. These are important causes.
and 20 billion to anyone under 35,000k income who wants a real college degree.
This is a bit frivolous. Don't get me wrong, education is important but there are far more dire needs than this at the moment.
I think that ending homelessness permanently would have a bigger impact. For one thing, if nobody was homeless or had a fear of it, crime would plummet. I don't think that criminals
want to be criminals, I think that they often have little choice in the matter and the fear of being homeless is a VERY strong motivator. It would also solve the housing crisis because if everyone has a place to live, it would cause the price of rent and real estate to fall through the basement.
This would solve a lot more problems than people going to university for free because the cost of living is too high and there are many people who don't have the capability to benefit from university. Having a safe place to live, sleep and raise a family is something that
everyone would benefit from, not just the people who are intelligent enough to get through university. My IQ is very high but my uncle's is very low. It makes me sad because he loves computers but no matter how I try to teach him about them (and he asks me often), he just can't "get it". University would be of no benefit to him.
then keep 4 billion for himself and his wife with the scarey wide smile
Oh hell, even if he only kept $1,000,000,000 he'd still have more money than he could possibly know what to do with.
By fighting climate change what he really means is that he is going to use his money to promote candidates around the globe that will enact legislation to make you poorer by spending trillions on "green energy" which to date has not proven to be any better for the environment than Carbon based energy. Also, to tax fossil fuel derived energy sources to force you into electric cars and solar panels. His money will do nothing to actually fight climate change, but it will go a long way in creating more totalitarianism and widening the gap between the elites and the rest of us.
I agree with you there. The greenest-possible energy is Geo-Thermal and we already know how to do it. It doesn't take up much space, doesn't cost much, is suitable as a baseline source because it's constant, can be done literally anywhere and is essentially perpetual. I honestly don't understand why it gets ignored. Probably because if the problem was solved, nobody could make money off it anymore.
Jeez, the hatred is real with you guys. You literally can't be pleased.
What, you think that Jeff "Lex Luthor" Bezos hasn't
earned all of the hate? You're kidding, right? (Please tell me you're kidding!)
Jeff Bezos is a psychopath who lies as easily as he breathes. Buffett and Gates are the same because they've had the means to permanently solve rampant sociological problems for years but those problems still exist. They could have permanently ended homelessness in the USA but they haven't done it. They talk about giving their fortunes away to help the world but they all still have tens of billions of dollars that they're sitting on, billions that can do objectively nothing to improve their own lives.
The economy is like a machine and money is the lubricant that lets it run smoothly. When enough of that lubricant is taken out of circulation, the machine will start to run badly (this is where we are now) and will eventually fail.
I wonder why ANYONE would feel hatred towards the people causing the economy to fail.
I think I'd find it very difficult to donate to the *right* charities as well. Having 90% of your donation lining the pockets of a charity would piss me off to no end. If he doesn't do it correctly the money is just wasted.
Then he should just start his own like Bill Gates did. Unlike Bill Gates however, he should actually DO something with it that costs him more than what would be the equivalent of $10 to normal people.
Correction:
Jeff Bezos plans to offshore away the majority of his fortune
He hasn't done that already? What an amateur!
Good on him for at least/maybe trying to help.
We'll see. Until then, he's still a greedy psychopath in my eyes.
but just tax these uber rich people and companies, its that simple.
It would be, except that they pretty much own the US congress regardless of party and you know how Americans are (taxes lead to their "socialism boogeyman").
No, we’ve all been around the block enough times to spot the BS virtue signaling and typical con by these elites.
Yup. Lots of talk, no action. These are psychopaths who lie as easily as they breathe.
If they really wanted life-changing benefits for this planet, they’d ensure clean water supply and infrastructure for Africa, build the Southern Border wall to keep all the gangs and drugs out, invest in promote pro-life causes to further economic development and ingenuity, and deliver food to the hungry.
And yet, none of that happens. I couldn't agree more!
Good for him. It's good to try and do something positive in the world. It doesn't really matter if you're donating billions or just a couple of dollars. Though personally, I'm most impressed by those that donate their time to the things they believe in.
Well then you should be REALLY impressed with me because I've donated what would be considered BILLIONS to charity already if you account for the wealth difference between normal humans and billionaires. When Bill Gates spent $250,000,000 to fight malaria, I did the math and it was like me donating $20 to the Salvation Army. Man, compared to these billionaires, I'm a goddamn SAINT! (pun intended)
I truly believe that charities should NOT exist because in a world that is run properly, there is no need for them. Charities are the result of governments not doing nearly enough to begin with.
Besides, Bezos has lied so many times that I refuse to believe his words, only his actions.
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