Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth

• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s the difference between spending money to have your will enacted, and having your money taken by the people, for use of the commons.

  The latter is a very dangerous precedent to set. You don’t want the people feeling like they can have their will enacted.

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• DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t say how the tax avoidance strategies of the super-rich work in practice, but in any case, their feigned philanthropy is a key part of it.

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not.

    This is a common misconception based on meme level reasoning.

    I don’t know how this works but I know I don’t like billionaires.

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    • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You need to be more specific. I’m not going to waste my time refuting your statement because I can’t even begin to imagine how you came up with that.

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      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That makes two of us I guess.

        You said that you don’t know how it works, I can’t really respond to that.

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