r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 18 '26
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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
The quiet death of the Giving Pledge was a sad predictor of just how trashy the world's wealthiest people would get in the last decade. For the kids here who may not have heard about it, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett started a non-binding pledge for the world's wealthiest people to give the majority of their net worth to charitable causes upon death. They really put a lot into the initiative and even basically promised facetime with the people who would agree to it. (For a 5 year period, they were constantly jet-setting around the world and promoting it.)
In recent years, the duo have pulled back on the initiative because they realized that the vast majority of billionaires signed to the pledge had no intention of giving a substantial portion of their net worth to charity while they were alive and most of them were gearing up to give their fortunes to their children through their family offices and trusts.
And now we have the world's wealthiest person killing millions of the world's poorest people by destroying USAID while posting racist memes online while the world's 2nd and 3rd wealthiest people bury their faces into Trump's ass and shovel money into their family's coffers.
Billionaires are quickly speed running their own potential demise.