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Old 14-11-2022, 11:52 AM #1
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Default Jeff Bezos plans to give most of his £110bn fortune away

[Jeff Bezos has revealed plans to give away
most of his $124bn (£110bn) fortune
during his lifetime.
The Amazon founder, 58, is the world's
second-richest man after Elon Musk,
the Tesla boss and new owner of Twitter,
according to Forbes.

This is the first time he has said he plans
to give away most of his money.


Mr Bezos has been criticised in the past
for not signing the Giving Pledge,
a campaign founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates
to encourage the mega rich to contribute
most of their wealth to charity.

Asked directly by CNN whether
he planned to give most of his money away,
Mr Bezos said: "Yeah, I do."]


https://news.sky.com/story/amazon-fo...-away-12747415

He can afford to.
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You can only spend so much money in your lifetime.
You will find more happiness in giving it to good causes.
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He has just given Dolly Parton 100 million to give to good causes
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He has just given Dolly Parton 100 million to give to good causes
Dolly is such a great person, love her
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I remember Dolly gave a million of her own money toward vaccine research
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You can only spend so much money in your lifetime.
You will find more happiness in giving it to good causes.
I agree. It's like those people who win something crazy like £168m on Euromillions.

There was this guy who spent about £8m buying a lake. First of all the lake belongs to nature so he was made a mug of there.

And secondly, imagine what joy he could have brought to poor.

Millions of people could have benefitted from just that £8m.

I'd get a massive joy out of that.
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im expecting at least $200m if dolly is getting $100m, just waiting for the phone call.

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Yes good news about Dolly Parton

Lovely woman

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Dolly has always been lovely, I remember her donating her money to vaccine research.
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You can only spend so much money in your lifetime.
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This.

I'd like to think if I had that kind of money and opportunity to do good, that I'd at least try.

Obviously though Birmingham City and the PlayStation are coming first.

But seriously I'm glad that Bezos might do some good.
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If I were ever lucky enough to have a lot of money iake as many people as I could very happy x
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If I got 100 MIllion id buy a 10 speed racer, a Grifter AND a Chopper

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He can give me a few thousand I don’t mind
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Literally was in my head as i clicked this thread

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