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Which billionaires are doing the most good?

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Re: Which billionaires are doing the most good?

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Since the angle this website introduces itself with is: "These are the world's most powerful people. Let's track their impact & inspire them to do more good" This doesn't seem like a good motivator, because doing something for the sake of reputation doesn't directly incentivize solving a problem in an effective way. And w.r.t. the title of the post, it seems like there are a few steps critical steps being omitted in…

Thoughtful perspective! This is the v1 of the site and I'm looking to improve it. - How can I make it more neutral? - Is it sometimes worthwhile to simply accelerate the deployment of capital? Can you combine the two incentives? My mindset, to be clear, is that we want more people to strive to be like Bill Gates with their wealth. Even determining who that is right now is extraordinarily difficult. Making the data pu…

"How can I make it more neutral?"

Just show the numbers. If there's something you'd like to show what the numbers mean, then be careful about explaining that. Make clear distinctions between metrics and goals. Think about all the metrics you think will tell you that you're approaching a goal; then find all the ways they will break. I already said how your metric-of-choice is broken and cheat-able.

"Is it sometimes worthwhile to simply accelerate the deployment of capital?"

Is this what you believe your role is?

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"My mindset, to be clear, is that we want more people to strive to be like Bill Gates with their wealth."

You're going to burn yourself out by trying to find human levers to change the world. Some of us will be there to welcome you to the club, but I know some people who haven't made it. I'm not one to say whether you should hop on or jump off that train. Usually, there's something else that's going on in my life that leads me to that kind of mindset.

There are contradictions in our language and value-systems, and it's total bullshit, but we chose to pretend to believe them because that's what you need to do to get in for the ride. Lots of people forget that they are pretending, and some of re-remember it in adulthood or something.

So the difficulty in determining in "who that is" might be one of those contradictions popping up.

Re: Which billionaires are doing the most good?

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post #57

Public's perception of Warren Buffet is really puzzling to me. He seems to largely escape the scorn for billionaires, even looked at as a 'good guy'. Whats his secret? We seem to hold CEO of coke more culpable for filling oceans with plastic than coke's shareholders like buffet who profit more from it than the CEO. Really bizarre phenomenon.

I think some of it is that he doesn't really live like a billionaire in a lot of respects, takes anti-wealth political positions (he's an opponent of California's Prop 13, for example pointing out that he pays less in property taxes for his Malibu estate than people with much more modest properties in California), is explicitly not forming a money-based dynasty in his family (he has given his kids "just enough so tha…

Not sure any of that offsets funding and profiting off of obesity epidemic and filling oceans with plastic.

Coke is killing ppl with coronavirus by causing massive obesity crisis in america.

Re: Which billionaires are doing the most good?

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post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also you’re just incorrect about rent control. SF has it in a tiny fraction of apartments. That's flat out wrong. "San Francisco has a roughly thirty-five percent homeownership rate. Then 172,000 units of the city's 376,940 housing units are under rent control. (That's about 75 percent of the city's rental stock.)" source: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/ Please point out a solution from these politici…

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This is the second taxamazon PAC shill I've seen spamming HN in the past week. Looks like they are trying to astroturf on HN.

Re: Which billionaires are doing the most good?

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post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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This is the second taxamazon PAC shill I've seen spamming HN in the past week. Looks like they are trying to astroturf on HN.

I guess you don’t know what astroturf means. or shill.
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