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You are assuming that the information that is publicly available is a representative sample of how Bill Gates spends his money. That may or may not be true.
by Iolaum 6y ago
You are assuming that the information that is publicly available is a representative sample of how Bill Gates spends his money. That may or may not be true.
- ryan93 6y agoIt’s a fact he’s given tens of billions to charity. What evidence do you have of him spending similar amounts on other things?
- searchableguy 6y agoI too would like to donate a few billions from my 100 billion pile of cash.
- cinntaile 6y agoI mean why would he donate everything at once? That wouldn't really make sense.
- chiefalchemist 6y agoPerhaps not all at once, but there are plenty of problems with underfunded solutions. A few years back, I was fortunate to have a random conversation with a reknown researcher from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He was lucid and blunt: if we had more money we could solve fusion. A couple days later there was news of China having done the longest running fusion reactor burst (?) to date. Two-plus minutes. I keep thinking about that conversation and his "promise."
- josefx 6y agoExcept most of those tens of billions haven't gone anywhere and are still held by a foundation fully controlled by bill gates. The amount of it that drips down to actual charities is a small percentage of these tens of billions each year.
- tzs 6y agoThey are currently giving away about $5 billion a year.