echodot comments on Tax the Billionaires, they'll be fine

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

No human needs a billion dollars. It's an utterly obscene amount of money and just because you give away $26 billion does not mean that the remaining 10 billion is an acceptable amount to keep.

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[–] protist@retrofed.com 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't disagree, but my points still stand

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

To counter your actual point, they might have picked her because there isn't another billionaire who gave away such a big part of their wealth at once. Bill Gates could have given away more over time, i don't know really, but her giving away so much proves even with just a few billion you can multiple your wealth in a few years. I guess that has to do with the fact any one that rich only needs like >0,01% of their wealth to fund their extremely comfortable life.

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[–] YawningNostalgia@thelemmy.club 1 point 5 months ago

If I were a billionaire I would be careful about where to give my money. Like that would be my full-time job. You always hear about organizations that spend most of contributions on overhead and have overpaid CEOs, like Goodwill. I'd want to lay eyes on every place I gave to so I could be reassured it's not another org that just shifts money around.