My answer is we don't, and anythung a foundation like this puts effort towards is going to be biased(I've yet to see the gates foundation take up a social cause

My answer is we don't, and anythung a foundation like this puts effort towards is going to be biased(I've yet to see the gates foundation take up a social cause that would affect Microsoft's bottom line). The whole idea of charities is that were letting private entities control the "altruism dollars" in society, the only reason to do this is to prevent the public from deciding the course of the funds and to add a layer of obscurity to make it harder for the public to see where the funds are going. To the people responding to you basically saying "charities are good, what do you mean?", why is it that we have to donate money to the gates foundation to provide foreign aid, isn't that one of the things we expect our government to do and pay taxes towards?