Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agoBill 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 wealthfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square137linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkBill 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 wealthfortune.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square137linkfedilink
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoNow imagine if there was some way a government could take a percentage of that and put it towards improving society as a whole. Oh well, guess we’re fucked.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months ago Now imagine if there was some way a government could take a percentage of that and put it towards improving society as a whole. Yes, some form of “giving pledge” where the amount was standardized and there was no option to back out. Radical thinking here.
minus-squareSlovene@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoBUT THAT WOULD BE COMMUNISM!!1!
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agostop stop i’m already hard
Now imagine if there was some way a government could take a percentage of that and put it towards improving society as a whole.
Oh well, guess we’re fucked.
Yes, some form of “giving pledge” where the amount was standardized and there was no option to back out. Radical thinking here.
BUT THAT WOULD BE COMMUNISM!!1!
stop stop i’m already hard