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Peter Thiel is actively convincing billionaires to abandon The Giving Pledge — and it may be working (finance.yahoo.com)

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For your information (I didn't knew) the Giving Pledge is a initiative launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to ask billionaires to give 50% of their fortune to charity.

Thiel is now trying to convince is fellow billionaires not to sign it or to unsigned it because the money would go to “left-wing nonprofits that will be chosen by Bill Gates.”. 🫤

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The pledge was always bs. These billionaires create charities to funnel money to their kids and associates. They’re not out to help any of us, they’re run by pedos like gates, and rapists like trump

[–] tmyakal 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've got an uncle who made a fortune during the initial dotcom bubble decades ago. He got out before it burst, and started his own charity that built plumbing in Chilean villages.

Turns out he mostly wanted to retire somewhere cheap, make sure it had the modern conveniences he was used to, and appoint his children to high-level paid positions of his non-profit.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did they end up building plumbing that benefited others?

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, this rich guy made a killing in a developed country, and instead of spending it all on blow and hookers, he invested a bunch of it in our local infrastructure. Then he hired his kids to run a non-profit that built more infrastructure for us. Fuck him, right?

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I get why you'd be jealous, but it sounds like he's making the world better for everyone around him? It's not his fault he was in the right place at the right time. What do you think he should have done differently?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think this is all that bad tbh. My lottery dream is to set up a nonprofit and offer jobs to my friends. We wouldn't collect donations so I'd be paying all the staff salaries anyway.

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