by evilgenius » Sat 21 May 2011, 13:10:08
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'I') am a signatory on the Giving Pledge. My will directs the creation of a foundation to use my wealth to alieviate suffering. ALL my wealth. I have no heir.
Giving Pledge
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Giving Pledge is a campaign to encourage the wealthiest people in the United States to make a commitment to give most of their money to philanthropic causes. The campaign specifically targets billionaires and was made public in 2010 by the two wealthiest men in the United States, billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
The official website states that it "is an effort to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in the United States to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to philanthropy."
linkBut alieviating suffering isn't enough. The industrialists must be stopped from turning this nation into a giant sweatshop and destroying the American people.
Right now they are trying to break the working class and make them second class citizens. No less. You are already hearing talk of limiting voting rights, and they are already targeting public education.
They want ignorant, illiterate serfs with no means of improving their condition.
This is not the America I was born in. This is more than evil.
Alright, you keep talking about a conspiracy to do this. I don't see a conspiracy as much as a total lack of faith in the broader process amongst the 'industrialists'. Since the 1970's the average worker's wages have been declining and who seems to be the number one supporter of the trend, the brainwashed average worker! Unions have practically fallen apart and who seems to be the number one supporter of the trend, the average person who would most benefit from being in a union! Easy money comes along which can only lead to a huge financial bubble and who seems to be the number one supporter of the 'new economy', the average person who by all rights should have stood up and said, 'this can only end badly and shouldn't be done'! Are people really that stupid or do they have absolutely zero faith in solutions that don't involve immediate gratification, but instead involvement and work? Aren't industrialists just as effected by this poisonous thinking as the average man, only they are in a much more powerful position to bring about immediate gratification for themselves, not all together too worried about who suffers as a consequence?