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Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years (www.gatesnotes.com)
submitted 1 day ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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One of the best things I read was an 1889 essay by Andrew Carnegie called The Gospel of Wealth. It makes the case that the wealthy have a responsibility to return their resources to society, a radical idea at the time that laid the groundwork for philanthropy as we know it today.

In the essay’s most famous line, Carnegie argues that “the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.” I have spent a lot of time thinking about that quote lately. People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that "he died rich" will not be one of them.

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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a good comeback. Take that wealth and start lobbying to start fixing shit

He could start up a whole ass organization with departments to fight for education, health care, income equality, homelessness and more.

He could resolve homelessness single handedly by funding homes, but what we need is to fix the machine.

I seriously think we need to focus in fixing education and news/social media regulations to increase critical thinking in the masses and stop the suppression of "woke media"

They're making everyone dumber and brainwashing the masses. How we got our current leader.

Social media platforms are how many Americans get thier information and news. Purposefully spreading misinformation and suppressing non offensive political views should be a massive fine by the FCC.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why would he do that? He's so rich, he can never go broke.

All his "Foundation" bullshit is PR, after he realized everyone hated him before Bush Jr. made all his troubles go away. I wonder how much that "Donation" was?

There is no such thing as a good billionaire.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's my point. A "good" billionaire would make moves not promises and donations.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agreed.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I appreciate how civil most lemmings are. I've been wrong and admit fault. Or unclear and clarify.

We also have idiots on here though. I imagine that ratio may change as Lemmy gets more adoption.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Regression towards the mean is inevitable. The best we can do is hope to model a good culture for future fediverse denizen (fedizens?)

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I'd prefer fedizen over lemming because I can't get the old lemmings out of my head.