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

Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And the reason Melinda divorced him.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Serious or joke?

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We can only speculate, but his infidelity with staffers was known, and him being on the Epstein list may have been the final straw.

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      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A decent person would have gone to the press with it, but she’s wealthy so she didn’t.

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• anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And he didn’t donate shit without an economic incentive, it’s all a tax writeoff, it’s all a scam. Even that shit he did pumping money into AIDS research as “charity” went into companies where he held stake himself. It’s so fucking vile.

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• Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Didn’t know that, but not surprised.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In an email sent after Gates went to have dinner with Epstein in his Manhattan mansion he wrote A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late

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