»Bill gates gives $400,000,000 to charity.«

bill gates has given $400,000,000 of his own personal money to charity

is he still the devil incarnate?

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posted by the anomaly

man is only half himself
the other half is a bright thing
he tumbles on by luck or grace
for man is ever a blind thing

in-my-opinion.org -> Politics -> Politics and Crime (Assorted topics) -> Bill gates gives $400,000,000 to charity.

That is a fantastic gesture...

...but is it wrong of me to still think he's done this to either make himself and his company look good? I learned something new, I guess

posted by Crossfade

who is the world's richest man

Not true, founder of Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad is!

According to The Sun, Gates gave the cheque to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation to help children in developing countries get life-saving medication, and said that the cash was just a 'down-payment'.

Hrmm, this is only the beginning, soon it's gonna be more money to more charities!

has donated a whopping 400 million dollars to charity.

Heh, that's comparitively about 1000 dollars to him.

Apparently Gate's has been giving out millions to charity for years, so this isn't really a suprise to me.

posted by hungarian kid

Weiter, weiter ins Verderben!
Wir müssen leben bis wir sterben!

And I thought Michael Schumacher's 10,000,000 euro donation was a lot! Set your George Michael free

posted by Echelon

am impressed w/this. I mean, when you sit back and think about how much money 400 M is...wow. What's scary is that this might be "pocket change" to him. I learned something new, I guess

posted by GP

its awesome i think...people i thin will stop talking crap about him. well maybe...he is a nice guy...my bro in law works for microsoft and he used to be down the hall from gates' office and used to pee next to him in the bathroom. i thought that was always so funny

posted by Agent Zero

400 MILLION?

the anomaly:

bill gates has given $400,000,000 of his own personal money to charity

HOLY GUACAMOLE! That is a lot of money...

GPieters:

What's scary is that this might be "pocket change" to him.

Yup.

But his "pocket change" is certainly making a much more of a difference to charities than our pocket change is... White laugh

posted by nocturnal_anonymous

"NO CAPES!"

but if you think about it all our pocket change combined could make a difference right?

posted by Agent Zero

Of course, but...

Agent Zero:

but if you think about it all our pocket change combined could make a difference right?

Of course it could make a difference. Every little thing makes a difference.

However, if you think about it, it would take a preetty loong while before the "difference" is noticed if we put our pocket change together to help support charities...rather than a sudden "boom!": 400 million dollars.

posted by nocturnal_anonymous

if you get a doller from everyone in the US you will have that much probably

posted by Agent Zero

gates or microsoft?

where did this money REALLY come from? his personal account or written into microsoft's books as a pay off?

i comend this action but how much does it really help? how much does the world combine give out in aid each year yet nothing seems to come of it...i'm sure some get relief, but as a whole not nearly enough

how long did it take him to realize he had nothing else to buy? Thumb Down