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The question for me is what charities and how they are chosen. What demographics are the charities intending to assist, and who are they potentially intending to exclude? Even through charity, billionaires can push agendas and affect who receives privileges and who doesn't.

The trouble is that billionaires who remain sympathetic to Carnegie's "gospel of wealth" are vanishing, while narcissists who see themselves as American oligarchs are proliferating. It isn't hard to see how dynasties could be more politically powerful on a long timescale.

Many would call this a natural progression, and for my part I don't envy whoever ends up on the other side of that debate - money being the root of all evil.

I was about to say, they should just pay taxes, after all this is what government is for.

People are so stupid, they look at that figure and go "147 billion. Huh"

That cunt is a fucking greedy evil bastard and is literally causing children to starve to death because people can't afford food. This evil shit has $18 for every man, woman and child on earth. Think about that.

I'm not some sort of reactionary but I'm astonished how people don't realise just how much suffering these evil fuckwits are causing.

Burn the cunt on a stake

The only correct response honestly.

This fucker, and everyone else should not ever have $147 billion to give away, or anywhere close to it.

I'd argue it isn't his money anyway. These psychos have concocted a system of capitalism that is inherently theft and exploitation. The wealth is dependent on the masses who are kept poor as wage slaves stuck in a perpetual cycle of produce and consume. Which most of us cannot escape.

The masses are the cement and rebar foundation for the billionaires wealth.

Honestly, it ain't his money to give away. I wish people would realize this.

I have no idea how money works at large scale, so I guess I have a question for anybody who knows

Could that much money being distributed cause problems with the "economy"? My naive understanding is that the "economy" is (more or less) money moving around. Could hoarded wealth entering circulation cause any kind of problems?

I know my question is already sort of flawed since hoarded wealth isn't exactly sitting still, but I don't know if that makes a difference

Because his true passion in life is turning money into more money. This is what he does, he doesn't buy yachts, or sports teams, or politicians, he just makes more money. He lives very modestly actually, still lives in his same little house and gets like a mcdonald's value meal for breakfast before work every day, he's an interesting guy.

Because if it takes 10 years to donate that much and the market stays at its 10 year average growth they stand to have something like 190b dollars left when they are done donating that 149b.