[magpi3]

I agree he and the Gates Foundation do wonderful things, but I will Never be entirely comfortable with one person sitting on that much money. He is worth in the range of 100 billion dollars. 100 billion dollars.

He has promised to give half of it away but as far as I can tell is no closer to doing that since he first made the pledge. I really wonder sometimes if that pledge was just PR for the absurdly wealthy. No need to tax us! We will be giving it away! But when?

He is doing good things but there is no way I can look up to someone who sits on such an obscene amount of wealth.

[traskjd]

Bill has been giving away billions. He's just also been earning like crazy too.

I forget where I read it, but when Jeff overtook Bill, there were various articles highlighting that Bill would still have been a lot richer if you accounted for how much he'd now put through the foundation.

So just because his market net worth hasn't gone down (in fact it's gone up a bit), it's not from him not yet giving money away.