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    Forbes announces ‘True Net Worth’ to track how much billionaires give away

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    1. copperblood on

      Elon Musk reminds me of a saying I heard, “some people are so poor all they have is money.”

    5. archetyping101 on

      I think what really gets me is that these are BILLIONS. I can’t even imagine why I’d need more than like $25 million (nice house, nice car, invest the majority of it, help pay off some debts for family and friends) if I was being generous with myself.

      So to have BILLIONS and be hoarding it like you can take it when you die is weird. My peanut brain is like “what’s the point?” What could they possibly want that would need even one billion?

    7. Connect_Reading9499 on

      What I want to know is the “true” net worth of the rich without the speculative market. 

    8. Optimal_Brain_2908 on

      a lot of the money Reed Hastings has “given away” has gone to groups trying to bust Teachers Unions. I don’t think that shit should count

    10. brianlefebvrejr on

      They should have a richest person by liquid net worth. So much of these are made up speculative stock value

    12. Large_Air_1159 on

      After years of platforming and fetishizing wealth it’s about time Forbes puts them on blast.

    13. secretariats on

      MacKenzie Scott’s amazing philanthropy really shows that every other billionaire could also be having huge impact and doing so much good at little cost to their own quality of life, if only they actually wanted to

    15. Open-Concept-6130 on

      A lot of them give to “charities” they run. A reminder open AI was originally a non profit. 

    16. coffeenapssavelives on

      Tbh, this should replace or go alongside every “net worth” graph. Imagine having BILLIONS and hoarding it like a dragon. 😑

    19. originatr on

      It’s giving “we’re really not that rich, just way richer than you’ll ever be”

    20. obvious-tampon on

      Aww. They’re scared! “Look, we give so much away, we deserve to keep what *little* we have left!”

    21. NoMoreSkiingAllowed on

      philanthropy, while good on its own, doesn’t make up for the exploitative role they play in our current economic structure and philanthropy cannot solve this fundamental problem. it can only be solved through restructuring the economy and taxing and redistributing a great deal of this wealth

    22. HelloPeopleOfEarth on

      Then you have trump who actually created a charity where he pocketed all the charity.

    24. Juli_ on

      This feels like something the “altruistic” billionaires paid them to publish so people can go “ahhh, look at how good Bill Gates is at being a billionaire. I’m skipping him when we eat the rich”. There’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire, if they paid fair wages, taxes and didn’t bribe governments to get rid of regulations for their deeply unethical businesses we wouldn’t need their fucking charity.

    25. Pochaccostan on

      this has more to do with occupation of Palestine but i was reminded by this quote by Ghassan Kanafani –

      “They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it…
      Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity…
      O their audacity!”

      yea

    27. thatfreshavocado on

      Remember that there are NO ethical billionaires, even the ones that do a lot of philanthropy (plus where are they actually donating that money…). they didn’t earn that money, it was acquired through unethical business practices that allowed them to accumulate an obscene, disgusting amount of profit.

    30. misplacedsidekick on

      It’s kind of remarkable to me that almost a trillion dollars has been given and I’ve never been made aware of the benefit from the money anywhere near me. Is it nothing but scholarships and vaccines?

    31. tomtomtomo on

      Yeah, someone giving away 25B to only have 10B left is a real inspiration to us thousandaires.

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