I would like a small percentage of this. Hey just say, one percent.

I'm not greedy and I'm not too good at maths.

Bollocks. If these rich assholes felt guilty and inclined towards altruism they'd have spent it already instead of "pledging".

"[…] Furthermore, their supposed philanthropy isn't just them giving money away no-questions-asked. More often than not they aim to benefit their coffers and/or virtue signal their “conscience”:

• “They are moving away from unfettered, no-strings-attached giving and toward increased donor control over organizations, and are blurring the lines between private investment and public benefit.” —Gilded Giving 2020, by Chuck Collins and Helen Flannery [17].

• “Your "Giving Pledge" has a loophole that renders it practically worthless, namely permitting pledgees to simply name charities in their wills. I have found that most billionaires or near billionaires hate giving large sums of money away while alive and instead set up family-controlled foundations to do it for them after death. And these foundations become, more often than not, bureaucracy-ridden sluggards. These rich are delighted to toss off a few million a year in order to remain socially acceptable. But that's it.” —Robert Wilson to Bill Gates, 2010 [18] […]" —What if I paid for all my free software? | arscyni.cc

I would be fine for the rest of my life with 0,005% (10 million €)

Here's a crazy thought: How about paying people living wages instead of grabbing a megaphone and talking about the good you're doing for the world? Not that MS paid poorly (I worked for them back in college as an orange badge [contractor]), but a stitch in time, as they say, saves nine.

I believe Gates and Buffet are sincere. Musk, on the other hand ...

It will close after it spends around 99% of Gates' personal fortune, he said. The founders originally expected the foundation to wrap up in the decades after their deaths.
Gates, whose fortune is currently valued at around $108 billion, expects the foundation to spend around $200 billion by 2045, with the final figure dependent on markets and inflation.

Look , I know we should analyze the Gates Foundation's spending closely and make sure the money is going to effective places. I know it would be better if we taxed these assholes and resdistributed wealth in a more efficient way. But I want to believe that this is genuine, and Gates is having a late-life crisis change of heart and realizes that billionaires should not exist. giving away 99% of your personal fortune is pretty sincere, if he follows through.

I believe Gates and Buffet are sincere.

One cannot be sincere / ethical and be a billionaire simultaneously. If Gates were sincere Microsoft wouldn't be the monopoly it is now.

One cannot be sincere / ethical and be a billionaire simultaneously.

Says who? You? Maybe they once were not that sincere and have since had a change of heart. BTW, the Gates Foundation has done a tremendous amount of good over the years.

The Nobel switcheroo, look what a saint I am.

His charitable foundation is a personal tax haven/PR machine.

Fuck him.

High yield savings is currently at 4.66% at best right now...

With just 1 million in a bank account... That's 47k a year in interest. Considering that I don't need to work in this scenario (And thus wouldn't need a car, and all the other costs that come with needing to maintain stuff for a job)... I could probably make that work for the rest of my life.

At the risk of sounding sexist or misogynist, you could make it work unless you have a wife......oh dear.

Even if that's true, it doesn't diminish the very real good that the foundation has accomplished, like Polio eradication or HIV/AIDS research. You can feel about Bill Gates whatever you want, but you cannot deny that his money has done very good things for humanity.

I do have a wife. I pulled up our current budget and looked. We'd have to cut a couple of things but I could make it work pretty easily. It's the kids that would make it actually hard. But at this point they're spoiled enough. They'll live (they can live without food right?)

Edit: missed an entire word.

Gates has donated over 100 billion already.
That's a bit more than "tossing a few million a year".

Oh, darn. The kids only get $2 billion. From what I've seen, he's been making good on his pledges so far, solving international health crises and such. I get strong "I done fucked up and need to fix it" vibes from his actions since stepping down as CEO, and we have demonstrable examples.

Read his Kharma. Your poor ability to read significant life functionality and dynamics apparently. You display that by failing what is a fantastic example about why computers aren't parasites but some of them are. They are when the masses have been suckered into his crock of blatant lies ad infinitum.

So I really just gotta ask. How much exactly does their ad brag slush pot shell out for your blarring blind rep buff?

I mean, according to this, the plan is to not be a billionaire. If his net life transaction ends up being bilking Western technophobes to pay for mosquito nets and clean water that's cool.

Yeah, I've seen this trick before. And I have a feeling he'll be "earning" many billions in the same time period; how much I don't know, but I'm cynical enough that I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was "more than he donates."

One cannot be sincere / ethical and be a billionaire simultaneously.

"Says who? You? Maybe they once were not that sincere and have since had a change of heart. BTW, the Gates Foundation has done a tremendous amount of good over the years."

No. They might have done some good, but the harm of hoarding that much wealth outweighs their good contributions. Anyway, it's not the billionaires fault per se, but our flawed systems that have allowed it to happen. If I or most other people were put in the position of Bill Gates in his heyday, we likely would succumb to our vices as well.

"“They are moving away from unfettered, no-strings-attached giving and toward increased donor control over organizations, and are blurring the lines between private investment and public benefit.” —Gilded Giving 2020, by Chuck Collins and Helen Flannery [17].

“Your "Giving Pledge" has a loophole that renders it practically worthless, namely permitting pledgees to simply name charities in their wills. I have found that most billionaires or near billionaires hate giving large sums of money away while alive and instead set up family-controlled foundations to do it for them after death. And these foundations become, more often than not, bureaucracy-ridden sluggards. These rich are delighted to toss off a few million a year in order to remain socially acceptable. But that's it.” —Robert Wilson to Bill Gates, 2010 [18] […]" —What if I paid for all my free software? | arscyni.cc

One cannot be sincere / ethical and be a billionaire simultaneously.

Says who? You? Maybe they once were not that sincere and have since had a change of heart. BTW, the Gates Foundation has done a tremendous amount of good over the years.