[bungie4]

Mr. Buffet pledged 80% of estate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with many, many other wealthy people for the betterment of mankind.

By all accounts, The Gates Foundation is delivering on their promise by reducing child mortality, womens rights, life expectency, health care and education to the underprivileged of the world.

Heist indeed. <sarcasm>

Sauce: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

[Frondo]

The issue is not that this rich couple is promoting good in the world (nb: I'm not going to nitpick the grammar that others are chuckling over).

The issue is that it might be better for society not to allow people to amass so much wealth, such that society as a whole must then rely on them to pick out issues to try and solve. It might be better if we could solve social problems collectively, through a better system of taxing and directing money to social programs, rather than allow it to bubble up to a few and wait for noblesse oblige to kick in.

I'm looking at other countries, where the inequality isn't so great and the quality of life is better for everyone. Much of western Europe is an example I think we'd do well to follow.

In short: why leave it up to Gates and Buffett to decide what's a good use of what society produces? We could collectively decide we wanted universal health care, free university, and so on, like various other nations have successfully offered for decades.

[the-dude]

> by reducing child mortality, womens rights, life expectency, health care and education to the underprivileged of the world.

That doesn't sound too good to me.

[dragonwriter]

> By all accounts, The Gates Foundation is delivering on their promise by reducing child mortality, womens rights, life expectency, health care and education to the underprivileged of the world.

Except for the first item, that doesn't seem to say what you seem to think it does. Unless you mean to say that women’s rights, life expectancy, health care, and education in the developing world are all bad things that it is good to reduce.

[lowdose]

I'm not implying Bill Gates is bad but he is performing a myth like Santa Claus. It is even better when you have twice the amount of Santa Claus money.

Bill Gates "When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are.It's life."