• @SCB
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    -21 year ago

    I’m all for taxing the rich but the rest of this is just pure stupidity.

    Like why did you cap how much he can give away at one time lol

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      21 year ago

      Try to sell all your stocks at once if you own a big chunk of all available shares. The stock price would fall faster than you were able to sell your shares.

      • @SCB
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        11 year ago

        Bezos already engages in structured stock sell-offs worth vastly more than $10MM

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t cap anything. There are realistic limits to what you can give to charity. Give a charity that normally gets a few millions a billion and they won’t be able to spend it in any normal way. Breeds corruption, etc.

      Charity shouldn’t even exist, as it is always this patch on holes left by governments. Tax the rich until they are “normal rich” and then use that money for projects that normally would require charity

      Also, his wife actually had the exact same situation I just described. She spent millions over millions and once done she had more wealth than she started with

      • @SCB
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        11 year ago

        If only there were more than one charity, worldwide.

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          No.

          If only governments would tax the rich properly they’d have enough money to put good social programs in place. We wouldn’t need charity.

          • @SCB
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            01 year ago

            There will always be a use of some sort of charity until we live in a post-scarcity world.