• @Perfide@reddthat.com
    hexbear
    93
    10 months ago

    I'm so fucking sick of all these billionaires "pledging" their fortunes. "I promise to donate all my wealth when I die" then fucking do it you cowards, die already.

    • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
      hexbear
      31
      10 months ago

      One night I went through Gates’ “Giving Pledge” and I compared the wealth of the people who signed on in 2010 (when they started doing this pledge to give more than half their wealth to charity thing) to their wealth now. The average increase in wealth in those 12 years was like 170%, and the total combined wealth of the 50 or so signees had gone from like 250b to almost 700b. I wanted to make an effort-post with the data and more comprehensive analysis, but I got too busy and mad about it lol.

      It’s crazy how profitable “charity” is for the ultra-rich

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
      hexbear
      21
      10 months ago

      Like, imagine if Elon Musk actually did spend all the wealth he got from profiting off of the shitshow of COVID and solved climate change. He'd be hailed as a hero and the left would be stuck eating their hats for decades to come. But no, he would rather own the libs because they convinced his daughter to join their side.

      • @BobKerman3999@feddit.it
        hexbear
        10
        10 months ago

        I mean he convinced his daughter to hate him and he switched side when the sexual predator stuff came out...

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexbear
      14
      10 months ago

      So many of them are financing "try to live forever with vampirism" style projects so what they're saying is they want positive PR now just in case they fail... and probably will send their hoards to their eugenics-inspired failsons later anyway.