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Zuckerberg, Gates team up to contribute $25M for research into Covid-19

• allears 7y ago
  Those two together are worth how many billions? That's such a small amount for them, it seems to send some kind of message...
• uberman 7y ago
  In the recent past, this "team" had an estimate net worth more than 150 Billion and get news coverage for donating 0.016% of their net worth or comparatively nothing. This while Facebook was hoarding literally hundreds of thousands of masks until it was shamed. For context, this would be dollar for dollar the equivalent of me giving about $200 and I don't have a team of accountants to work my $200 into some sort of tax break. I have given more than this in tips to local restaurants who are pledging to share those tips with displaced staff. Meanwhile the worlds richest man has essentially started a go fund me campaign to have others pay his contractors. His personal contributions to this crisis seem non-existent as all support efforts seem to be from Amazon. It is an embarrassment of epic proportions that 9 people control 50% of all of the planet's wealth and still get news coverage for throwing coins to the pleabs.