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name one. billionaires don't sit on their capital.
by lintiness 11y ago
name one.
billionaires don't sit on their capital.
- _dark_matter_ 11y agoThe entire Walton family. (That's six).
- lintiness 11y agothey own walmart equity, you know, one of the largest employers on the planet. they have foundations, you know, that help the less fortunate: http://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/ http://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/ you guys have a lot of neat ideas for other people's money.
- jacquesm 11y agoYou asked for names, you got names. Nobody said anything about how they should spend their money.
- wfo 11y agoActually they are the biggest welfare recipient on the planet. They pay workers so little and abuse them so that they must rely on government help, provided by the taxes they avoid paying. They are a parasite.
- chrisco255 11y agoThey pay their workers $10 an hour plus health benefits. For the low-skilled labor that most Wal-Mart employees fulfill, that's a pretty good deal.
- phyrne 11y agoIsnt walmart pretty famous for paying low spectrum wages ?Foundations are based on avoiding a future tax contribution of your income,unless the inheritance tax is zero i.e unlike Joe public who dosnt have one so your definately spending a very decent amount of other peoples money
- refurb 11y agoWhy is this getting downvoted? Most of the Walton family's money is in Walmart stock, not sitting in a savings account.
- jacquesm 11y agoI did name one. One that did. I don't know of any others that did. Musk is driven in a way that no Gates, Jobs, Ellison or anybody else of such wealth is. I don't see him with a huge mansion or a yacht, just more projects.
- lintiness 11y agomusk is young, and gates is probably the great living human being. of all the people you gripe about, you've chosen a guy who gave, what, everything to humanity?
- jacquesm 11y ago> gates is probably the great living human being. I'm sorry, I remember a totally different Bill Gates all too well. I'd definitely not list him as 'the greatest living human being'.
- geoka9 11y ago> gates is probably the great living human being Amazing how a person can go from most hated in tech to most revered in the space of few years.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoActions speak louder than words. He facilitated great damage to the tech industry back then. Today, he uses his accumulated wealth to honestly try and fix several big problems on this planet, and he's very smart about doing it right. I say that if he deserved hate then, he deserves the praise now.