There's an estimate floating around that it would cost about $20 billion to end all homelessness in the US. Whether or not that's an accurate estimate, there is an amount that could do it, and every day that billionaires wake up and choose not to do it they choose evil.
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If your standard for 'a good example' is being a bit more creative with his tax-dodging PR stunts than other billionaires, that's a pretty low bar. A better example to set would be to not exploit people to accumulate wealth in the first place. It takes a whole lot of people like you and me staying poor to make Bill Gates that rich.
but I am determined that “he died rich” will not be one of them.
Bill Gates has a net worth of ~$168 billion. Even if this isn't just PR intended to launder his image, even if he does in fact give away 99% of that, it will still leave him with $1.68 billion dollars. Even if he ups that to 99.99% that'll still leave him with $16.8 million, which is still rich by anyone's measure. Bill Gates' idea of 'not dying rich' is radically different than yours or mine; he was never not going to die rich.
One of my favorite movies of all time. Too bad I will miss it.
Seems like that's a good time to go 'Oh, maybe we should change it to say 11 then'.
Unless there are 3 of them hiding behind that machine, that looks like 11 to me?
YSK: The Guardian became the first major newspaper in Australia and Britain to ban all gambling ads.
Nah, it's more that the answer to 'why is doing this?' is virtually always 'because money'. People forget that sometimes.
It's weird to juggle anywhere, but you shouldn't let that stop you cause everybody's weird in some way or another and that's fine. A park seems like as good a place as any.
Hmm, obvious troll is obvious. My apologies for assuming that you were merely confused rather than confused and malicious. I won't make that mistake again.
Here's a tip: don't shove that phone in my face unless you want it smashed.
Joining a book and 2 movie clubs was one of the best things I've done in recent years. The book club sadly fizzled cause people didn't have time, but we have a bi-weekly movie club where we pick complex, difficult movies and talk about their themes and such, and a monthly kung-fu movie night where we just hang out and watch silly movies, and they're the highlight of my online week.
Haven't Western nations already been applying significant sanctions to Russia? It's pretty clear that hasn't been working, why do they imagine that more of the same will work any better? Oh right, they don't, they just want to look like they're doing something useful.