Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 days agoBill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealthfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square133linkfedilinkarrow-up1912arrow-down111
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minus-squareDandomRude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoI can’t say how the tax avoidance strategies of the super-rich work in practice, but in any case, their feigned philanthropy is a key part of it.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoIt’s not. This is a common misconception based on meme level reasoning. I don’t know how this works but I know I don’t like billionaires.
minus-squareDandomRude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoYou need to be more specific. I’m not going to waste my time refuting your statement because I can’t even begin to imagine how you came up with that.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoThat makes two of us I guess. You said that you don’t know how it works, I can’t really respond to that.
minus-squareDandomRude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoYou said that philanthropy is not misused to avoid taxes—that is definitely wrong, but if you want to believe it, please do.
I can’t say how the tax avoidance strategies of the super-rich work in practice, but in any case, their feigned philanthropy is a key part of it.
It’s not.
This is a common misconception based on meme level reasoning.
I don’t know how this works but I know I don’t like billionaires.
You need to be more specific. I’m not going to waste my time refuting your statement because I can’t even begin to imagine how you came up with that.
That makes two of us I guess.
You said that you don’t know how it works, I can’t really respond to that.
You said that philanthropy is not misused to avoid taxes—that is definitely wrong, but if you want to believe it, please do.