re: Bill Gates dedicates $158 million to American poverty issues

Translation - he's not doing anything about poverty.

Sounds more like a money laundering scheme than anything else.

a pittance for him, but he has to make sure EVERYBODY knows about it

Buy that way into heaven to make up for stealing DOS

Best part about this thread is everyone telling him how he should donate his money as if anyone in this thread would ever donate to that same cause.

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millions of dollars toward unspecified initiatives ranging from data projects to funding for community activists.

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He is allowed to do whatever he wants with that money, however, if that is all it is going to, he might as well burn it.

Throwing a bunch of money at poverty will not fix anything. The only thing that will is when people in poverty realize it’s up to them and make the decision to better themselves instead of looking to something like government to give them a handout


Also community activists are pretty much scum

A) I have some pretty big respect for Bill Gates and his foundation. Dude puts both his money and his brain to work on the issues.

B) I do believe in systemic poverty. Kids are taught to be poor by deadbeat parents (or by their absence). You have to figure out a way to break that cycle, and that includes drying up the government teat.

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funding for community activists.

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Just as good as giving millions of dollar to leaders of African nations. They'll just pocket all of it and use it to fly around, stay at expensive hotels, and act important.

Half a mil to 300 mil Americans cures poverty

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You put your money where your mouth is when you feel strongly about an issue

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No, you don't. If you believe in something, you put your time into it. Money is nothing if not done correctly, and giving grants out is completely stupid and meaningless. All that does is enrich those individuals. Charities in this country are nothing but scams to enrich individuals running them.