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Bill Gates says he's open to taxing philanthropic gifts to private foundations.
Bill Gates, should we abolish billionaires? "Maybe I'm just too biased to think that if you create a company that's super valuable, that at least some part of that you should be able to have -- a little bit for consumption, and the balance to do philanthropic things."
Bill Gates on why he doesn't spend his billions on U.S. elections: "I choose not to participate in large political donations. There are times it might feel tempting to do so. And there are other people who choose to do so. But I just don't want to grab that gigantic mega-phone."
Bill Gates on his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein: "I made a mistake in judgment that I thought that those discussions would lead, literally, to billions of dollars to global health." "And I gave him some benefit by the association. So I made a doubly wrong mistake there."
Gates says it's "tricky" to recruit billionaires to sign The Giving Pledge -- especially so overseas -- because need to vet them. "I feel bad: We probably will at some point accept someone into the Giving Pledge and it will turn out that their fortune is a disreputable fortune."
Bill Gates says "targeting should not be allowed" on political ads. But he also says that corporations should not be fact-checking political ads. "No private company can or should make those judgments."
Bill Gates says he's working on a book about climate change due out next summer.
Sorkin: "Do you have any interest in space?" Bill Gates: "No." Sorkin: "Your neigbor in Seattle likes space." Gates: "He can have it." Billionaires joking who can "have" space.
So it's ok for him to give away the balance after "a little bit for consumption", but it's not ok for him to give it to the nation that made that fortune possible & the people to whom they provide services he doesn't even need? Unbelievable.
And don’t forget the underlings who were really generating the wealth...
Elizabeth Warren has always said that: if you have a successful business, great - keep a big chunk of it - but don't forget that it was the systems and structures that also helped you to succeed, and you have an obligation to pay some of that back. Tons of clips of exactly that.
I am from Seattle and bill gates has been helping the city of Seattle hell the state of Washington since forever I have multiple friends that were able to attend college all four years because of his scholarships. If you are gonna talk about someone not giving back bill gates
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