Warren Buffett’s son is on track to donate $1 billion in aid to Ukraine this year—and pledges to continue despite Trump’s shaky relations
Warren Buffett’s son is on track to donate $1 billion in aid to Ukraine this year—and pledges to continue despite Trump’s shaky relations
I have mixed feelings about this headline. On the one hand, it's good to see this much money going to a good cause. On the other hand, I firmly oppose the ability of any one person to control this much money.
Compare this one guy's donation to a good cause against all the other billionaires donating money to the Heritage Foundation, MAGA, etc
Billionaires "donating" to foreign countries sounds like bribes for rare earth minerals.
No billionaire is altruistic. Bill Gates is the best example.
Not the OC but the problem I have is in just one private citizen's ability to influence so much military power. While historically this isn't new and in this case it does overall good, I think that this kind of thing is a slippery slope that eventually could lead to billionaires funding wars to manipulate market elements for profit.
I also hate that it just moves forward this idea of "individuals and charities will pick up the slack" when they dismantle everything good the government does.
The world would be better off if all excess wealth were perpetually redistribed
Yeah, we know. There's hundreds of opportunities to complain about its use for evil. Let's just appreciate it for what it is.
Sounds like those motherfuckers need to pay some taxes, clearly.
That's your take away?
They shouldn't exist to begin with, workers should get a bigger share and products should be cheaper. Taxes money aren't necessarily used for good especially when you have a bunch of fascists at the government.
Yup. That’s what happens when we hand over all the power to a few people.
We get excited when those priviledged people, who are literally the ones who oppress us, make choices that helps us a little.
Wonder if this Buffets PR teams idea.
It's orphan-crushing-machine stuff
So if Warren wants to do the morally correct thing why doesn't he hire assassins to kill the bad billionaires?
A good person turning into a billionare by accident would donate all his extra money away as soon as he gets them. There aren't any good billionares.
So if Warren wants to do the morally correct thing why doesn’t he hire assassins to kill the bad billionaires?
Most people prefer to stay out of prison.
Billionaires don't go to prison tho
Technically, we don't know that he isn't. That kind of money likely means an assassination would be heavily planned out and need to look like natural causes because if was obvious he'd potentially put a target on his own back from other billionaires.
But I seriously doubt he'd do this anyway.
If the wealthy's heads end up in baskets, the Buffets won't be among them.
All billionaires deserve the vast majority of their wealth to be seized, but I vote we spare this one the guillotine.
Fuck this asshole for existing - I don't give a shit what he does, good or bad, because no single person should get to decide what happens to that much stolen wealth.
Billionaires should not exist, but in a world where they do the ones that give away some of their billions are less terrible than the others.
I have mixed feelings. His gist is basically that he agrees billionaires shouldn't exist and that there's no ethical billionaire and he wants reforms to make it so they don't. But he argues that we live in a system where billionaires are inevitable and that it would be stupid not to invest wisely and make billions if he can because if he doesn't someone else just will and he can use the money for good.
However, even if you buy this narrative of good billionaire, you can just look to his ties will Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda gates foundation to see that, even if he did mean well, his perception on how to do good is completely twisted.
Oh no, not that horrible person Bill Gates who checks notes saved 50 million peoples lives
There's a tweet floating around the Internet that says: "You know that question where you're asked if you'd press a button for a million bucks, knowing it would hurt someone somewhere that you don't know? That's how you get billionaires. They're pushing that button as often and as quickly as they possibly can."
Billionaires are motherfuckers. All of them.
Thank you to Howard G. Buffett!
I am glad that Howard Buffett has a sober understanding of how the russians operate. They will not engage in good faith unless you demonstrate that you are able and willing to fuck them up.