• EmpathicVagrant
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    5 days ago

    His donations are mostly to things connected to him and family, aren’t they?

    • LifeInMultipleChoice
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      5 days ago

      A lot of the Gates foundation goes towards infectious diseases, maternity and child care (around the world).

      It’s done for tax breaks of course, but that’s the dumb system we accept.

      I would have thought taxing wealth and distributing not based off individuals decisions but rather global/national networks and experts would be the best way, but hell… The way this current administration is siphoning funds out of everything including the military to push a partisan agenda shows that could go horribly wrong as well

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        5 days ago

        It’s also done in such a way as to prioritize for profit solutions rather than non profit solutions

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      5 days ago

      I would believe that is true for many rich people, and it’s been shown for Trump, but I have seen no indication this is true of Gates.