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Originally Posted by astroron
How do you know that they don't 
The people on the ground may save hundreds to thousands of lives, but if with the donations of these Billioner's they find a cure for AIDS or Malaria, they could save thousands to millions of lives 
It is all to simplistic to condemn people with money with unsubstantiated claims  |
This is a very contentious and complicated issue, but you also have to consider why they _wouldn't_ give something back, they do not even vaguely have any real use for what they have. 10 percent of 50 Billion leaves you to struggle away on Five Thousand Million Dollars, so giving away Forty Five Thousand Million dolllars hurts you not one zot. These sort of numbers are almost incomprehensible to us humans, analogous to the distances in space. My purchase of a Care Bear for $10.00 is equivalently generouse to Bill donating $2,200,000 (based on his net worth being about 55 billion and mine being about 250,000). Yes, I'd rather they spent it on something to help humanity as a whole, but what can possibly justify the ludicrous margin of they're earnings over someone who actually works for them.