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SinisterSlay 06/23/23 4:43:17 PM #31: | adjl posted... Bill Gates didn't become a billionaire by being a good person. He's now making a quasi-earnest effort to use his billions to do good things, which is good (how that balances out with his previous misdeeds is a complicated moral judgement, but there isn't a ton of point in trying to judge people overall like that), but what he's doing is still a drop in the bucket compared to what he could do. 100 billion dollars is really an absolutely staggering amount of money, far more than any one person will ever be able to spend on themselves without making a genuine effort to piss it away on nothing (like buying Twitter for $45 billion to shitpost without consequence or taking joyrides to space). Meanwhile, paying $1500/month in rent for every single one of the ~585,000 homeless people in the US (which is a very generous estimate for what housing them would cost, given the potential to house families together and find further savings by operating on a large scale) would cost about 10.5 billion per year. Even with no other income, Gates could fund that for 10 years continuously and still have more money left than he could ever spend on himself.Rich people get rich by not spending money --- He who stumbles around in darkness with a stick is blind. But he who... sticks out in darkness... is... fluorescent! - Brother Silence Lose 50 experience ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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