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

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  BUT THAT WOULD BE COMMUNISM!!1!

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    stop stop i’m already hard

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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