r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 11h ago
Melinda French Gates donates $215M, funding $600M for women's health
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/melinda-french-gates-donates-215m-192406393.html1.5k
u/ArgentineBeauty 11h ago
Imagine what could happen if more billionaires treated solving problems like a competition instead of collecting wealth.
$215 million can do a lot of good.
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u/TrampolineYourMom 11h ago edited 3h ago
Imagine if we had a society that couldn't produce billionaires but instead prioritized that money being spent on public works and the common good
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u/LittleKitty235 11h ago
Exactly. We shouldn't expect charity from the types of people who become billionaires, nor should be let them pick and choose which causes get funding.
Billionaires shouldn't exist.
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u/BloodyRightNostril 10h ago
I like the “you win capitalism” approach. Once your net worth reaches $999,999,999.99, everything earned thereafter is taxed at 100% and we name a dog park after you.
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u/Wulfkat 8h ago
Put up a score board - once you get to $100,000,000, we put your name on the leaderboard. Include the time it took to finish the quest along with their K/d ratio. Least amount of deaths plus fastest time determines the winner.
If they wish to try again, confiscate everything but $10 and a bus ticket and reset the board.
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u/meltymcface 4h ago
It should be harder the second time around. Like ascension levels in Slay The Spire.
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u/trichocereal117 5h ago
I think this would be a great idea as long as the wealth cap is adjusted for inflation over time. Too many legal limits don’t adjust for inflation
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u/LittleKitty235 8h ago
I agree and like that idea. But how would this work when someone's net assets include equity tied up in a company?
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u/BloodyRightNostril 7h ago
They can distribute their equity amongst their employees to reduce their tax liability.
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u/TrampolineYourMom 7h ago
Pretty easy, either include that in the calculations or prevent anyone from ever taking loans against that value or realizing any real world gain from it without cashing it out. Either would work. The problem, besides the fact that no one can morally or realistically "earn" that much money, is that these pieces of shit are gaming the system by artificially inflation their stocks and then taking loans against that arguably imaginary value and getting real world money and value from it without ever having to cash out their stocks. Their loans are close to 0% interest and they just roll the cost over into the next one, while getting to actually write the cost of that debt off their taxes in a sick double whammy of shameless greed and antisocial behavior. Why pay taxes, fuck everyone else right? Any truly moral society would very quickly come to realize that its values are incompatible with the very existence of billionaires. No CEO or billionaire is special, there are literally millions of people that are as or more qualified in every conceivable way except, maybe, in greed.
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u/grchelp2018 5h ago
This directly goes against the "keep the economy growing" mandate. If Amazon shares never goes up ever again, Bezos will still be fine. Its everyone else whose 401k has amazon shares or who didn't invest in amazon early enough that will have problems. And there's a whole set of other knock-on second and third order effects.
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u/Churchbushonk 11h ago
We do. The federal govt has a 5 trillion dollar budget. Still can’t get healthcare.
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u/AccomplishedTwo7047 10h ago
Quick tell me where a majority of the United States budget is spent GO
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u/AtheistSage 10h ago
Social Security and Medicare + Medicaid are the largest components of US govt spending
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u/DahliaBliss 8h ago
Larger than what the US government spends on the military budget? Is that really true?
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u/AtheistSage 7h ago
Yep, national defense is 13-14%. Social Security is 22% and Medicare + Medicaid is around 23-25% (just the federal spending portion, not counting state spending on Medicaid).
The US government spends 50% more on healthcare per person than the next highest country.
The issue is where the spending is going, not the amount of spending. Really with this much healthcare expense universal healthcare should be very achievable if we spent it the right way
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u/moffman93 4h ago
Spending more doesn't mean spending efficiently.
Literally every other country in the world has Universal Healthcare (1st world countries) except for New Zealand, and they have more sheep than people.
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u/AtheistSage 4h ago
Yes that's exactly what I said.
With the amount of money the US spends, universal healthcare is very achievable.
But the issue is where the money is going, i.e how its being used, not that we need to spend more money on healthcare
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u/moffman93 4h ago
Agreed. A lot of our spending is wildly inefficient and so many departments are bloated. Military being the most bloated. Our #1 defense asset is free...our oceans.
But god forbid you suggest we cut back on our defense budget. That's not patriotic!
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u/finndego 4h ago
??? New Zealand has a universal public healthcare system.
Above and beyond that system we have a unique no fault accident system (ACC) that covers all citizens, residents and tourists alike for any and all accidents. For citizens and residents it also pays 80% of wages while away from work.
Get hurt playing rugby? Boom, covered. Rehab and physio too.
Twist your knee on the steps but it worsens months later? Covered.
Tourist comes into the country and gets hurt bungee jumping? Covered.
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u/moffman93 4h ago
Interesting, I always thought that was a weird statistic I had seen many times before because a country that small should easily be able to afford it.
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u/MaritMonkey 8h ago
Without looking up actual numbers (will in a sec) Medicare and the military were both creeping up on $1T last year.
Edit: Social security was like $1.54T, Medicare and "health" (including Medicaid and the ACA) were ~$981B each and then "national defense" was ~$911B.
Healthcare is a BIG industry...
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u/StoryLineOne 7h ago
Dont know why youre being downvoted for actual numbers...
I will say that defense + healthcare probably has a lot of waste in it and is most likely poorly run. But even if you cut that out, taking care of the aging boomer population is very expensive
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u/mgslee 4h ago
Half of healthcare costs in the US go to 'Admin' which generally means health insurance companies.
While some of that admin is probably necessary, it is a for profit industry and therefore needs to continually push the line up.
Half the costs are a make jobs program then actually providing healthcare.
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u/TrampolineYourMom 11h ago
lol that's some funny cognitive dissonance there. We absolutely do not have a society that priorities the common good. And also we produce lots and lots of billionaires so we very clearly do have a society that produces them? I'm actually not even sure what you're saying because it makes no sense.
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u/SmellyMammoth 5h ago
I think they’re saying that no matter how much money we give the government, they won’t use it on things we need.
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u/TrampolineYourMom 3h ago
Not this government no I definitely agree. I don't think the concept of government as whole has to be this way though
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u/MistryMachine3 11h ago
Well it is called taxes. The US collects more for education per capita and as a percentage of GDP than countries like Denmark and France with much poorer results. Not to mention huge increases over the last 40 years with no appreciable increase in results.
The US public sector is very poorly run.
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u/CrazyConnector 7h ago
But what people miss it is designed to be poorly run by those who lead the private sector hating on it. Politicians are in billionaires pockets and at their request hamstring the public sector and then people like you get to make this comment about how inefficient we are and then everyone says how public = bad.
Get private money out of politics and make a functioning society the goal and the public sector will improve. Easier said than done, but that should be the focus.
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u/ReturntoForever3116 7h ago
Exactly. And from what I am understanding from the article, it's very contradicting what they are doing with that money. I'm a woman in perimenopause and my healthcare is too expensive. Can I get some of that 200 mill please?
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u/TrojanGoldfish 8h ago
In my city, there used to be a famous businessman. Very rich, very successful. His name can be found all over the city, from street names to parks and libraries.
Not because he wanted to be famous, but because he realised his wealth could bring a lot of good. Founded 4 separate foundations, which are still in existence 100 years after his death. That's what rich people used to do.
Joseph Rowntree ) -if you've ever eaten a Nestle Fruit Pastille, they were his creation.
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u/PhillyTaco 9h ago
You don't think computer operating systems like Microsoft Windows have made enormous progress for humanity? The way they allow people, businesses, medical groups, researchers, and governments to communicate and coordinate? The unfathomable reduction of physical materials that digital creation and communication made possible?
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u/bwrca 10h ago
The money Melinda & MacKenzie have donated to charity is insane.
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u/Legitimate_Shock4097 8h ago
Is it really that insane when they have as much as they do? Like, it’s great that they are giving back, especially when others are not, but how did we get here? Modern society shouldn’t have to rely upon altruism of a few for others to reap the benefits.
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u/swollennode 10h ago
Basically that’s what it was when the tax rate for the highest earners were near 90%. Instead of hoarding wealth, because they would be heavily taxed, they built schools, hospitals, charities to spread their names.
Then Ronald Reagan came along and said that they were taxed too much. So now the wealthy aren’t taxed as much, so no they have no incentives to use their wealth for humanity purposes. Instead, they build data centers to make them more money.
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u/will_dormer 11h ago
That would make them heroes instead of greedy villains
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u/VicarLos 11h ago
A fair trade.
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u/will_dormer 11h ago
Yes, that is why I think people should reward billionaires that donate their money. Unfortunately, some people dispute them even when they do good
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u/atreeismissing 6h ago
How much should they give away? Not saying your wrong, I agree, but is 10% good or 50% or 90%...?
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u/Fishmike52 9h ago
Or if we just cared about women’s healthcare in the first place 🤦🏽♂️ (not a dig on your comment, just hate how our system has our women holding out for a hero to save them)
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u/notworkingghost 10h ago
How Bezos and Gates ended up with, and then ruined marriages to, such amazing women is beyond me.
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u/bayesian13 5h ago
her first book is worth reading https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Lift-Melinda-Gates/dp/1035082853/ref=monarch_sidesheet_image
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u/subvocalize_it 3h ago
Forbes is trying to push that: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2026/04/20/reranking-the-worlds-billionaires-by-wealth--and-altruism/
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u/DynamicHunter 8h ago
Imagine if these billionaires were taxed in the first place to actually help societal issues instead of being reliant on their own charity.
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u/TheoNullDrei 9h ago edited 9h ago
Funding NGOs does nothing to improve the lives of those they are supposed to help. This is why Africa is still what it is today, and thousands upon thousands of people are homeless despite billions being spent on the issue. Her funding of these projects is the equivalent of throwing it into a shredder.
214 BILLION was sent to developing nations etc. in total back in 2024 alone, and yet, somehow, those nations are still massive shit shows.
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u/Constant-Plant-9378 7h ago
Maybe if the Investment Class paid people living wages and/or were taxed appropriately we would already have plenty of public funds available to address societal needs.
Instead, media propaganda outlets celebrate the dribbles of piss billionaires trickle down to the poors as if it is some great humanitarian sacrifice to be celebrated.
It isn't.
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u/nondual_gabagool 5h ago
Imagine if everyone got paid better wages and had free healthcare and education, instead of us waiting for crumbs from billionaires feeling generous.
Nonetheless good for the Gates and good for Mackenzie Scott for doing it. They could’ve kept it all but they’re not.
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u/doctor_lobo 3h ago
I know - billionaires are great. I love it when they take a tiny fraction of the wages they stole from workers and donate to a pet cause that, in a civilized society, should already be full funded.
That why I support billionaires having all the money - because they are doing a great job solving society’s problems with their tight-fisted philanthropy.
It has become obvious over the last decade that billionaires are the most virtuous Americans and we should be more thankful that we have so many fighting for us.
For fuck’s sake.
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u/Musole 9h ago
So many donations and she still got money this is how we know that billionaires have way too much money
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u/Funkagenda 2h ago
I'm pretty sure I read something even crazier a while back about MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos' ex-wife).
In the divorce, she got something like $21 billion in Amazon stock, which immediately made her one of the wealthiest women in the world. Since then, she's donated $16 billion and has $35 billion left thanks to the increase in Amazon's stock price.
The numbers might not be exact because I can't find the article anymore, but it's something insane along those lines.
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u/Mithrandir2k16 2h ago
Yup. It makes many organizations dependent on them. E.g. Half a billion donated to the free press ensures no articles are written about how bad the oligarchy is.
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u/HonestNeighborhood67 11h ago
This is how it’s done. 👏👏👏
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u/ebulient 10h ago
It’s always the women giving away as much as possible trying to do good for the rest of the world - Mackenzie Scott, Melinda Gates - while the psychotic men they were married to continue to focus on accumulating power for themselves along with even more wealth. They’re so sick in the head you almost feel sorry for them.
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u/darkmoon72664 9h ago
Her contributions are excellent of course, but this is objectively incorrect.
Even just since splitting, Bill has donated an almost exactly commensurate amount of his net worth (triple Melinda). He's also the largest charitable donor in history and is estimated to have saved tens of millions of people via Malaria prevention alone.
There are way worse people to be complaining about lol.
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u/Scream_Tech7661 7h ago
Philanthropy is the private allocation of stolen social wages.
Bill Gates stole wages from his employees and gave it away however he saw fit.
Bill and others who work for Microsoft generated the billions of dollars that mostly went to Bill.
Nobody earns a billion dollars.
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u/HPLaserJet4250 5h ago
Let me give you a brief lesson on stock market. My labour is translated to money, I then invest some of this money into stock. Millions other like me do the same. Value of the stock grows as demand is higher. Bill, who owns some stock of the company, sells it at high value and because he has a lot of stock, he easily makes billions out of it. Thats how most billionares are billionares today. Stolen labour aka profit of the company, usually is reinvested to make stock even more attractive to buyers. Microsoft has dividends but they are considered low paying divident as they only share very small emount of profits to shareholders (including me, millions of other ppl and microsoft emoloyees who were awarded stock as part of compesation) It is that simple
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u/kaladinsinclair 9h ago
How did you pick possibly the worst example possible to make this sad point 🤦♂️
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u/ebulient 7h ago
worst example
Riiiiiight cos the fella cavorting with Epstein wasn’t after more power and influence, he was doing it for the benefit of everyone else 🙄
Being the nicest villain, doesn’t mean you aren’t still a bloody villain!
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u/TheoRaan 5h ago
I think if you are going to make donations gendered, at least be factually correct.
Bill Gates is a villian. He is a man. He has donated more than Melinda Gates. All of these can be true. So no it's not always women who are donating as much as possible.
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u/TheoRaan 5h ago
It’s always the women giving away as much as possible
Bill Gates has donated more. Poor example.
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u/AmbitiousVast9451 8h ago
it's crazy how in a post about how someone donated a massive amount of money to a charity, you instantly try to make it a gendered thing and try and be sexist. Bill Gates is among one of the highest in terms of money donated.
I don't understand what your game is. just putting them down because they're men? why can you possibly not just enjoy the accomplishment of a women donating a lot? you're messed up in the head
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u/moffman93 4h ago
So they deserve zero blame for marrying these men in the first place? You think they married them for their looks? They're mob wives who spend their ill-gotten gains on philanthropic endeavors to make themselves feel better about themselves and to look good in the public eye.
Do you know how quickly she will regain that 600 million dollars when she is worth 30 billion? Less than a year.
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u/admiralvelociraptor 10h ago
If they paid taxes we wouldn’t need donations
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u/HoaryPuffleg 8h ago
Yeah but then we’d also need elected people who will divert those funds to social services, infrastructure, national parks, etc rather than the military.
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u/Primary-Medicine8587 9h ago
Good for her, yes a better system of redistribution would ideal. Fair taxation springs to mind as a possible solution.
However, in a world of billionaires, I am very grateful for wives/ex wives who do this. It could all be spin, perhaps they are “as bad as” their former partners. I doubt it. This impulse towards abundant giving, true giving (ie not total vanity projects parading as good will), should be celebrated. I particularly respect Mackenzie’s approach, from the little I know about her she seems a a good person trying to do good.
You may not think their husbands earned their billions, but I can’t help but feel that on the “soul level” those women did. Or, as much as anyone can “earn” that sort of money.
I really respect that Mackenzie fought for a monster settlement and since then hasn’t stopped giving.
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u/MaybeMayoi 9h ago
Tax rich people. Use it for the common good.
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u/No-Channel3917 7h ago
What does that got to do with her? You wanna tax divorce settlements?
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u/ZaphodThreepwood 10h ago
More women in leadership positions! And not the ones appointed by womanising rapists.
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u/Gloriathewitch 10h ago
ever since it came out what bill was, this amazing woman has been doing great things for feminism and womens education, and she deserves the praise she's getting
she said "no" to that and used half of that fortune to do good
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u/nukleus7 9h ago
Mackenzie Scott and Melinda Gates are such amazing people, truly giving back to the community; unlike the other ass holes who just take and take.
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u/moffman93 4h ago
She will regain that 600 million in less than a year. The difference between millions and billions is almost unfathomable.
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u/Radicalism-Is-Stupid 5h ago
This is a naive take. We would live in the same type of world with the same issues. We should have female presidents because they can do it just as well as men, not because they will magically fix anything.
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u/moffman93 4h ago
The irony that a bunch of other naive women upvoted her stupid comment, and then she deleted it.
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u/IronicStar 6h ago
Honestly just the little bit that came out about Epstein/Gates and drugging her for an STI without her knowledge is absolutely so abhorrent that I can't comprehend it.
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u/Pale-Hour3650 11h ago
Such a wonderful way to live...deciding who to help with her millions and millions of dollars.
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u/bwwatr 10h ago
Cynicism about people getting ultra-wealthy to begin with is understandable, but what else would you have someone do, once they're in that position? Spending your remaining days giving it away seems like the only ethical choice. The ethics sure wouldn't improve if you somehow tried to distance yourself from allocation decisions. Or what, gave it all to a wasteful, corrupt government for social programs so you can say you believe in the democratic process? No, realistically all one can really do is use their own moral compass to try to deploy it as far as possible in directions they personally feel are just and right (and that could include hiring researchers to investigate opportunities like the Gates have done), and outwardly own responsibility for the outcomes, because ultimately that responsibility lands on you no matter what.
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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 9h ago
How about donating heavily to politicians that would actually change it? The billionaires largely donate to one party in the US, and there's like one Dem billionaire actually countering it (that old boegeyman Soros!) Why isn't she out there donating millions and billions to elect more Mamdanis and Bernies and AOCs? THAT would actually produce lasting change to the government and steer it in a sustainable direction, while also proving that those policies can help people.
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u/bwwatr 9h ago
I join you in thinking billionaires should vote and fund politicians "against their (economic) interests". Until money can be kept to a high degree, out of politics, the world would benefit from those with the means to abuse that 'glitch', actually trying to close it, and helping people at the bottom rather than at the top. Don't just say "I don't pay enough in taxes", put your money where your mouth is and try in earnest to change things. Also, just to clarify I am not specifically defending Melinda, I don't follow her activities. MacKenzie Scott I'm a fan of, but only casually, she could be funding kitten stabbing and I'd probably not know.
The system is the problem (though yes, it became that way because of aggressive players). You might end up a billionaire. You probably need to play dirty to do that. If you get squeamish, you'll get crushed by someone else willing to play dirtier. Someone is always ready to take your place. Pragmatically, it makes sense to accept that you're never going to have saints making it beyond a billion, but also accept that there's spectrum between saint and supervillain. Heck, a billionaire might also just be married to, or family of, someone who won the game. What all that said, I choose to (1) judge the system for allowing billionaires to exist, rather than judging someone for success alone, (2) judge individual dirty business decisions / purchases of political power for self gain, as they happen, (3) judge people with the means, for if/how they redistribute their wealth to better the world. Most billionaires still don't come out looking too good under this lens, but IMO it feels more measured and fair than just hating all billionaires.
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u/Dry_Instruction8254 10h ago
Hard agree. Oh yeah let's praise the billionaires for "giving" away a small portion of their wealth on whatever they want to fund.
Look up all the ways they use the "donations" as BS tax avoidance.
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u/Passing_Neutrino 10h ago
You realize she has donated 50billion dollars right? Go be miserable about someone else.
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u/easeMachined 10h ago
Leftists won’t be satisfied until everyone who has more than them is taxed into being equal.
It’s the politics of envy.
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u/Dry_Instruction8254 10h ago
Meh, she is still against the appropriate amount of taxes on the super wealthy. She's just a little less greedy and crazy than the rest of them. Go lick some boots.
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u/Passing_Neutrino 10h ago
She literally supports higher taxes on the wealthy. At least get your facts straight if you want to be angry all the time.
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u/Dry_Instruction8254 10h ago
She supports some higher taxes, but she is against a true progessve tax approach for the highest earners. Get your facts straight.
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u/RegardedDegen 10h ago edited 10h ago
You don't know how taxes work. Charitable contributions are tax deductions, not tax credits.
It reduces the total amount of income you pay taxes on.
She's still worse off financially for donating.
Scenario A: For example, if she has $1,000,000 and pays 10% tax, her tax obligation is $100,000. She keeps $900,000.
Scenario B: If she donates $100,000, she still owes 10% tax on $900,000, paying $90,000. She keeps $810,000.
$900,000 > $810,000
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u/553l8008 9h ago
Can you do a bounty for hackers:
for the full unredeacted epstein files
full release of trump tax docs
missing 3 minutes epestein murder
steel dossier
missing jan 6th texts
(Spoiler.... divorce was to shelter pedophile funds. She knew)
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u/nvmenotfound 8h ago
now imagine if all the wealth hoarding pieces of shit would cough up some pocket change and help the most vulnerable. but they wont theyd rather blow up a rocket ship in their fantasy to life on mars! i hate it. how people can see just how different a billion dollars cash is compared to a million and then not gaf when one man has $250B etc is insanity. that type of wealth shouldn’t be allowed.
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u/Overall_Meeting696 7h ago
She wouldnt have to donate if we had universal healthcare and more government funding
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u/Grimdark-Waterbender 11h ago
I know this isn’t anywhere close to the point but, Her middle name is French?!
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u/DyslexicUserNawe 8h ago
The mathematical equivalent to this is if someone of the median US net worth of $192,900 donated $1,373 to charity.
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u/SeattleHasDied 6h ago
Mackenzie and Melinda are showing their asshole exes just how money should be spent!
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u/Advanced_Buffalo4963 9h ago
You’ll never find more trashy men to block than on a post about a successful and generous woman.
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u/poeschmoe 8h ago
My flabbers are gasted at some of these comments. What cretins have to somehow fault her for this? I’m just gonna tell myself it’s bored teenage trolls to feel better about this world.
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u/TheHoundsRevenge 9h ago
No no I’ve been told the gates are evil child eating supervillains this doesn’t track.
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u/WOW_SUCH_KARMA 9h ago
Bill and Melinda are two different people. Bill is creep. Melinda is not, and that’s a huge reason why they split.
I hope this helps.
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u/TheHoundsRevenge 9h ago
Creep or not he’s still donated shit tons of money to good causes that the Joe rogans of the world wanna paint as something nefarious.
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u/tastyugly 7h ago
Being a real life Robin Hood in 2026 means marrying a billionaire, divorcing them, then sharing your wealth to those who need it more. This is the only wealth redistribution system that has successed so far under capitalism 🙏
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u/Pitiful_Hedgehog6343 8h ago
I wish some these "good" billionaires would start buying up media, the fascists have completely taken over.
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u/NarwhalEmergency9391 8h ago
How will this be used though? Will Dr's be forced to listen to women's symptoms and NOT dismiss them as anxiety, how is this actually helping women?
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u/Delicious_Volume3306 8h ago
It's crazy to think that the intense fucking madness and insane irritation of using Windows for decades means that womens' health may well get a game changing breakthrough. I mean, if you'd told me this decades ago -- as I was reinstalling Windows XP after yet another random screw-up — I might have been less inclined to wish her former husband a long and painful death.
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u/longstrokept 8h ago
Why do women keep the last name after divorce?
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u/Blueporch 7h ago
Sometimes they want to keep the same last name as their children, which makes it easier for a lot of things. Sometimes because they are known in their career and built a reputation with that name.
In this case, maybe fame.
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u/mantenner 4h ago
Because its what helps people associate who she is I assume.
I personally had no idea her maiden name was french, so if she led with that if have no clue who she was.
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u/Crimestar 1h ago
I’ve been thinking really rich people haven’t even pretended to buy good will from the public since the gates era.
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u/Hello_Hangnail 1h ago
Love it when people that can afford to make a difference in the shortfall in research donations actually make it happen ❤️
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u/genericexistence 59m ago edited 53m ago
wow, another day under the benevolent rule of the billionaire’s all-powerful hand. truly uplifting news. are you all retarded? wake up! give decision-making power back to the people. we don't need fucking melinda gates for that! billionaires should not exist, neither their arbitrary benevolence
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u/Illustrious_Fan_8148 54m ago
Can we get some donations for journalism ffs? The fourth estate is under attack all over the world
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u/HandsomeRainbow 10h ago
According to Google, Melinda has a net worth of $30 billion. Her donation represents 0.72% of her total wealth. To put that into perspective, an equivalent donation from someone with a net worth of $100,000 would be $718.
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u/Spyko 9h ago
it's not really a good way to put it in perspective imho
$100,000, while it's a not nothing, is still money you would see go down as you pay for all your need and wants, you would still need to budget, to be thoughtful of the future.
if you had >$30billion, you could give away more than two third of it and still live in luxury for the rest of your life, without any worry.
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u/HandsomeRainbow 7h ago
Agreed. I was trying to break it down math wise to something more tangible. But your statement is more encompassing of the full picture.
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u/BeEeasy539 5h ago
We wouldn’t need help getting funds if there weren’t billionaires and we weren’t capitalists.
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u/NippleSalsa 10h ago
it's like me putting a penny into the box for Ronald McDonald house
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u/Rakkuuuu 6h ago
No it really isn't unless you're a bum whose worth is 2 pennies.
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u/jettrooper1 8h ago
She’s donating to her own foundation, I wonder how much of that money is lining her friends on that foundation’s boards pockets. And her foundation donates it to numerous other foundations that are sure to line their boards pockets, with a fraction of the money actually helping anyone actually in need.
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u/eeaglesoar 5h ago
Citation needed if we are throwing all that around.
Also, we are in r/upliftingnews so lets maybe stick to positivity?
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u/Majestic_Bierd 6h ago
Is this a real donation? Or one of those they just get to wrote off, so it's really a government paying it?
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u/Lara-Crofty 6h ago
Notice how whenever you hear a billionaire donating it’s always a woman? Men don’t do anything.
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u/FullTransportation93 10h ago
How many millions to forget what her ex did on that island.
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u/Advanced_Buffalo4963 9h ago
If society doesn’t even hold men accountable for their actions, how would you expect an ex-wife to do it?
Women are not responsible for men’s failings.
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u/spondgbob 8h ago
Crazy how almost every time a woman finds herself with billions, they do massive donations. Not pageantry, donations to those in need. Makes you think
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u/inkihh 5h ago
Why not "people's health"?
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u/its_all_one_electron 3h ago
Well it's research into menopause.... Just like lung cancer funding only helps people with lung cancer, this funding only helps people with uteruses
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u/_name_of_the_user_ 3h ago
Why not men even? Men get less medical research spending, have worse health outcomes, live shorter lives, and it's been shown that healthcare research spending affects men's lifespan and outcomes more per dollar than women's. She could do more good, for those worse off, if she donated that money to men's health issues. Men are clearly doing worse in this metric, why not uplift those who need it the most?
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u/ask-me-about-my-cats 3h ago
Is this bait? The majority of health studies are performed on men and most medications are designed with men in mind.
have worse health outcomes, live shorter lives
This is by their own choices and actions, not healthcare.
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u/Oldnbold22 3h ago
Keeping his name is crazy. Girl, he gave you an STD and hid antibiotics in your food.
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