EPTBill Gates donates 10 billion for vaccination - Page 4
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zizou21
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GreEny K
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On January 30 2010 06:24 Amber[LighT] wrote: wow hes rich and has no problem using that checkbook Yeah he does donations all the time, he is a good person and a genius. | ||
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Forbes.com: Despite losing $7 billion in 12 months, software man retains his title as America's richest person for the 16th straight year.....Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation dedicated to fighting hunger, improving education in America's high schools, developing vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS... Ramping up personal contributions: donating $3.8 billion this year, $500 million more than in 2008. So on top of losing $7 billion in 2009, he's donating another $10 billion in 2010, and while we're in a recession. Holy smokes~ | ||
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duckett
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On January 30 2010 06:23 CharlieMurphy wrote: shoulda donated it to cancer research or something imo. haha whaaat cancer research is by far the area that the government is most concentrated on right now, with a huge investment that is far bigger than the amount spent on any other disease or applications of cures for solved diseases the government and market generally see highest long term benefit in investing in very hard to solve but medical field advancing/more nationally relevant research like that instead of pouring money into the application of this research, which saves more lives in the short term and has less uncertainty. especially since the gates foundation has established a reputation for this work, their investment is incredibly effective and does what governments and most private investors cannot do, a true humanitarian act. Fan fucking tastic. | ||
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FragKrag
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TranceStorm
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On January 30 2010 11:12 duckett wrote: haha whaaat cancer research is by far the area that the government is most concentrated on right now, with a huge investment that is far bigger than the amount spent on any other disease or applications of cures for solved diseases the government and market generally see highest long term benefit in investing in very hard to solve but medical field advancing/more nationally relevant research like that instead of pouring money into the application of this research, which saves more lives in the short term and has less uncertainty. especially since the gates foundation has established a reputation for this work, their investment is incredibly effective and does what governments and most private investors cannot do, a true humanitarian act. Fan fucking tastic. Yeah especially if the money goes into things like malaria vaccination efforts which would save millions of lives with a relatively high success rate whereas cancer research has little guarantee of being as effective | ||
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deathgod6
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Hinanawi
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Makes you wonder why all billionaires don't follow suit. I don't really know how any one person could ever manage to spend $1 billion on just themselves even if they tried. It's got to be a lot more emotionally fulfilling to keep enough to stay rich, but donate the excess to charities. | ||
Jibba
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On January 30 2010 06:28 {88}iNcontroL wrote: Absolutely amazing. Love those 2 people. Really good examples of what people who can SHOULD do. Also I hope this doesn't degenerate into a "what he should have done with it" thread. That'd be really dumb imo. He should've bought 1.6 billion footlong subs from Subway. | ||
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meegrean
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Damian
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On January 30 2010 07:59 Boblion wrote: There are different strains of Ebola and Marburg virus but they are all completly unrelated with the HIV they are from different virus families Their sources aren't found only in Africa btw. I come from Marburg  @topic: Just awesome. | ||
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