Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's donated, already, the equivalent of 200+ billions USD (give or take 420M class B shares). Say what you want, but the list of billionaires who have donated such large amounts of money while still alive (or dead) is small. Cherry picking events like layoffs, without truly knowing how much was he involved (Berkshire directors notoriously enjoy lots of autonomy) or if the layoffs made sense, etc, seems a stretch whe…
To whom? To "charities" owned by other billionaires such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and those owned by his children. I don't want billionaires to donate anything, I don't want them to use their money to shape the world to their liking. I want them to pay their fair share of taxes and a functional government that properly allocates those extra funds instead of funding the bare minimum.
Which are responsible among other things for the quasi-total eradication of polio from this planet, provided vaccines for billions (literally) people across the globe in poor countries and have been major contributors in malaria and hiv treatment, prevention and research.
Also, they provided funds to millions of small rural farmers in third world countries to improve productivity and yields.
When I traveled Madagascar, plenty of villages had water and waste infrastructure built with the aid of that foundation too.
By the way, their balance sheets are public, and audited every year.
I'm baffled by the low-level conspirationism encountered on HN, it feels more and more like reading boomer's facebook everyday.