Post: Bill Gates is no longer richest person in the world!
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03-09-2011, 01:47 PM
#1
Originally posted by another user
Bill Gates is no longer the richest person in the world, and he has no one to blame but himself.
Gates, who co-founded the huge computer company Microsoft, won't be at the top of the richest list because he has given away more than a third of his money to charity.
How much money are we talking about? Well, Gates and his wife, Melinda, have donated $28 billion (that's $28,000,000,000) to the foundation they created to improve education in this country and health conditions for people around the world.
Forbes magazine will release its annual list today, and it's expected that the top three will be Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, worth about $60 billion; Gates, worth about $49 billion; and investor Warren Buffett, worth about $47 million.
Sure, Gates is still really, really rich, and you could say that his giving doesn't affect him or his family. But think about this: Do you give a third of your allowance to charity?
Gates, who co-founded the huge computer company Microsoft, won't be at the top of the richest list because he has given away more than a third of his money to charity.
How much money are we talking about? Well, Gates and his wife, Melinda, have donated $28 billion (that's $28,000,000,000) to the foundation they created to improve education in this country and health conditions for people around the world.
Forbes magazine will release its annual list today, and it's expected that the top three will be Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, worth about $60 billion; Gates, worth about $49 billion; and investor Warren Buffett, worth about $47 million.
Sure, Gates is still really, really rich, and you could say that his giving doesn't affect him or his family. But think about this: Do you give a third of your allowance to charity?
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**Bill Gates and his wife have given away billions to improve health conditions around the world. (2003 Photo By Themba Hadebe)
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Originally posted by another user
Bill Gates would be world's richest person 2011 in Forbes magazine if he wasn't so charitable
03-09-2011, 11:16 PM
#39
Calebbeast
Official
03-09-2011, 11:17 PM
#40
doodson
Keeper
Originally posted by Ropponen
Be an arse if you want, they are poor, becouse west supported dictators during Cold War, they didn't wanted them to fall communism and dictators stole all money west give them. The reason why Afghanistan is like it's today, is becouse US supported jihadist leaders (including Osama Bin Laden) and when USSR retreated, Taliban took over Afghanistan (they did it with weapons that west gave them). So becouse of Cold War some countries are poor and that's why you should support them.
so what your saying is we shouldnt have supported afghanistan hmm seems to be a bit of a contradiction you have going on there, either you support other countries or you dont there is no on the fence about it
edit: also at the time your talking about it would have been seen as "helping" afghanistan no one knew osama was gonna be a bitch
03-09-2011, 11:56 PM
#42
helpmeoprah
FormerStaff HATED ON
Originally posted by Jot1011
if you didn't know charities help with taxes, so he wouldn't have to pay that much out to the government, so in the end bill gates is still smart as ****
03-10-2011, 12:34 AM
#43
LTBadBoy
Camel Toe
Originally posted by doodson
and we broke away so we dont have ties with them and plus like i said in the end of my post its still their own faults there poor
Look at You must login or register to view this content.. Europe isn't as poor as you imagine so, in fact we're quite rich, it's just the greedy ****ing politicians in Brussels, Belgium that steal all the ****ing money. If the EU wasn't around, the UK, Germany and France would be much better off. The European Union is made up of modern day communists.
Oh wait, you wasn't talking about the EU, you was talking about Africa wasn't you? Lol, still.
03-10-2011, 12:43 AM
#44
AhhMahZing
Are you high?
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