⚈ Goals include termination of preventable deaths, treating disease and reducing poverty
⚈ Critics interview the motifs of billionaire philanthropy and the earlier business tactics of the gates
One way Bill Gates has worked to avoid hitting a second pie in the face Over the last three decades, his mass charity donations have survived. As part of the process, he promised that his net value would fall into a huge 99%over the next twenty years.
The famous billionaire and the founder of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) published his plan Gates Foundation Complete operations by 2045, if it corresponds to its charity mission.
Although it is always difficult to accurately quantify, which is the amount of money of extremely high net value, as it is essentially related to shares and bond market fluctuations, Gates's net value is estimated May 8, 2025 $ 113 billion during the press.
Under these circumstances and assuming that things are generally at a level, its wealth has fallen to $ 1.1 billion and its foundation is $ 112 billion.
Unfortunately, for the gates, such a setting ensures that he dies ashamed by deciding on Andrew Carnegie's quote he has referred to as inspiration this article:
The man who dies, so rich, dies.
A 20-year-old plan for Bill Gates
In the attached article, published in the magazine Gates Foundation The website and shared through the Social Media Platform X, the billionaire also described the goals of the upcoming 20 -year charity.
According to the text, the treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, as well as vaccines for many other disadvantages, whose explicit purpose is to ensure that “no mother, child or baby dies the preventive cause, and that” the next generation grows in the world without deadly disease “.
The third main goal of the foundation in the last twenty years, Gates identified “hundreds of millions of people” from poverty and more from countries, although he also acknowledged that ambitious and admirable plans require government cooperation worldwide.
Interestingly, although the announcement has the final decision of the final decision, the billionaire left an interesting warning in the text when discussing the upcoming Microsoft every year employee meeting when he claimed:
Although many years have passed when I leave Microsoft, I am still a CEO in my heart and I do not make any decisions about my money without taking into account the impact.
The suspicious generosity of billionaires
Because Carnegie introduced the concept of philanthropy, their work, so many billionaires and millionaires, is often criticized.
The platform child, why many doubts about the good intentions of wealthy people when they give their wealth, have been Elon Musk's tweet, in which he promised to stop starving the world when someone came up with a plan to achieve less than $ 6 billion.
If the UN team submitted Such a plan simply ignored it and famine is still a big problem four years later.
Some of the most ardent critics of the system and billionaires charity have thus pointed out that the world throws an important part of The companies operating on this food and industry depend on the artificial scarcity of profits.
The concern became a striking image like The police were standing on guard Over the trash cans filled with food in certain parts of the US during the cooling-19 pandemic.
Decades -long Bill Gates controversy
Gates himself has been criticized Allegedly, for the use of its charity foundation to promote businesses and innovation opportunities and white in which the billionaire has invested, or at least to reduce its taxes.
Some have claimed that the founder of Microsoft has used media platforms like a popular YouTube channel Kurzgesagt tempt people to worry about less disasters, such as detecting climate change. But the company has denied The influence of any excess billionaire.
However, this is a strategy previously used, for example, when a regular oil was used by a documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty to encourage people not to think about the devastation of a petroleum company in Louisiana, as described by Erik Barnouw in his book in his book Documentary.
Finally, though a good job Gates Foundation Has done this over the years that cannot be discounted, it is always worth remembering that the billionaire was greeted with this pie at the end of the last century by partly due to the fact that Being a sad businessman Who used Microsoft's financial muscle to break competing start -ups.
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