• Bricktamland29@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They donate their wealth to avoid taxes. Basically their families control the foundations, they donate and avoid a whole shit ton of taxes their next of kin get the money from the foundation.

    Adam Conover did a video on it.

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        Eh, Gates is older and has shown more commitment to the idea than most. I still wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him but the foundation has done some good things for a long time. And maybe with fewer self-aggrandizing press stories compared to others.

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          How do you go and, true to the expression, really throw someone?

          Does it imply throwing a human being as we’d throw a log? Perhaps a brick? I’d expect it involves a lot of physical strenght. And does it imply being from a stationary position?

          Does throwing someone down a window or from a moving car or perhaps a boat count?

          It intrigues me.

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            1 year ago

            Left hand by the scruff, right hand by the belt, lift, swing forward, back, forward, and release. Easy :)

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      They give away all their money so they don’t have to give away some of their money. Then they commit crimes so their kids can… have the money they gave away to not give away.

      What a take lol