Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest person

[Mr Queeba]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/bezos-seizes-title-of-world-s-richest-person-after-amazon-soars
Now it's Jeff Bezos

[Ad Bot]

[St. Francis Xavier]

Mainly because of

Bezos, 53, has added $28.5 billion to his fortune this year.

[Refticus]

what a Bozo

[Woof]

Bezos might become the first trillionaire.

[TheABELBOTO]

We can't stop him now

[Cubone]

now it's time for bill to freeze himself in carbonite and only awaken when he becomes the riches man again

[hootaloo]

hope he's going to donate as much if not more than gates
does anyone know if he was already donating his wealth to charities?

[RedGajin]

hope he's going to donate as much if not more than gates
does anyone know if he was already donating his wealth to charities?

ive never heard of him doing much besides donating to Seattle charities (where amazon was founded), but i could be wrong. p sure he tweeted out a lil while back asking for people’s ideas for philanthropy and stuff

[Kumquat]

I guarentee without looking hes donating. Financially he loses on not donating. There are probably very few rich people that do not donate money.

[TristanLuigi]

Financially he loses on not donating.

what

[Drydess]

what

pretty sure that you get some kind of government boost for donating money to places

[TristanLuigi]

pretty sure that you get some kind of government boost for donating money to places

yeah, that income is tax-deductible, although you won't get more money out of it than you spent on donating

[Ragequit]

his name is jeff

[DrenDran]

This brother made $10,000,000,000 in a few hours. Nice.

[Vigil]

yeah, that income is tax-deductible, although you won't get more money out of it than you spent on donating

I forgot where I read it, but most rich people use donations as a kind of "investment" or something and that's how they get big richard money back. I don't remember exactly how it works, and I didn't really understand it when I read it either.