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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You sweet summer child, Bill Gates has ALWAYS been a sociopath interested in only money and power.

His retirement and donating all his money to "charity" was only a smoke screen to preserve his wealth. He created his own charity (this is wealth preservation tactic used by ultra rich). And while it does some good, it's main purpose is to preserve his horde and whitewash his past so he's remembered as a good guy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

his own charity (this is wealth preservation tactic used by ultra rich).

I've never understood how this is supposed to work. If his money goes into the charity, it's not his anymore. Seriously, someone please explain?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The things they do daily (food, travel, clothes, haircuts, etc) are expenses of the charity because they work for them and are the "image" of it

Dump their money tax-free into a charity and then use it to fund themselves anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So a charity is like a tax free checking account?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Sorta, it's more like having your rich parents pay for everything but the "rich parents" is your employer, which is just the corporation you set up to run everything. They usually use a company credit card as their daily use card and leave it to AP to manage

The exact details are of course prickly as fuck but that's a really basic overview of the idea

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