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Bill Gates advises: "Billionaires, give away most of your wealth"
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates said,"I think they would enjoy it, their kids would be better off, and the world would be better off," by giving to charitable causes.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said that billionaires ought to give away most of their wealth to charitable causes, and that they may find themselves enjoying doing so.
The world’s richest man has donated a large chunk of his US$40 billion ($58 billion) fortune to fight poverty and disease, via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic powerhouse.
“I think all billionaires should give away the vast majority of their fortunes, though I don’t say they shouldn’t leave anything to their kids,” Mr Gates told a gathering at Oslo’s opera house on Wednesday.
“I think they would enjoy it, their kids would be better off, and the world would be better off,” he said.
“I’m a great believer that great wealth should go from the richest to the poorest,” he noted, seated next to his wife, Melinda, who co-chairs the foundation.
One who has heeded the advice is investment whiz Warren Buffett, the world’s second-richest man. The close friend of Mr Gates said in 2006 he would leave a good part of his estimated US$37 billion wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Mr Gates said his foundation’s biggest success had been with vaccination, where “we have saved millions of lives”.
He said it was very disappointing science had not produced a HIV/Aids vaccine, but was optimistic about some emerging prevention methods that could be used by women to stop infection before a vaccine is discovered.
Once one of those methods proved to work, he said, the foundation would “get it out there and dramatically decrease the number getting (the disease)”.
But really...
for him...Microsoft founder Bill Gates said,"I think they would enjoy it, their kids would be better off, and the world would be better off," by giving to charitable causes.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said that billionaires ought to give away most of their wealth to charitable causes, and that they may find themselves enjoying doing so.
The world’s richest man has donated a large chunk of his US$40 billion ($58 billion) fortune to fight poverty and disease, via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic powerhouse.
“I think all billionaires should give away the vast majority of their fortunes, though I don’t say they shouldn’t leave anything to their kids,” Mr Gates told a gathering at Oslo’s opera house on Wednesday.
“I think they would enjoy it, their kids would be better off, and the world would be better off,” he said.
“I’m a great believer that great wealth should go from the richest to the poorest,” he noted, seated next to his wife, Melinda, who co-chairs the foundation.
One who has heeded the advice is investment whiz Warren Buffett, the world’s second-richest man. The close friend of Mr Gates said in 2006 he would leave a good part of his estimated US$37 billion wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Mr Gates said his foundation’s biggest success had been with vaccination, where “we have saved millions of lives”.
He said it was very disappointing science had not produced a HIV/Aids vaccine, but was optimistic about some emerging prevention methods that could be used by women to stop infection before a vaccine is discovered.
Once one of those methods proved to work, he said, the foundation would “get it out there and dramatically decrease the number getting (the disease)”.
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