Originally Posted by Yakk

No, he is continueing the tradition of using bad balance books, and planning on destroying social security.



Actually, that would be the US stock bubble in the 90s.

As an aside, 42 million dollars is a 0.001 of Bill Gate's wealth, roughly.

If you have a net worth of, say, 10,000$, this is the equivilent of giving 10$ to charity.

If you have a net worth of 100,000$, this is the equivilent of giving 100$ to charity.

If you have a net worth of 1,000,000$, this is the equivilent of giving 1000$ to charity.

It is probably less than this, in terms of real cost to Bill: Bill Gates has very good accountants, if they can't get a massive tax break out of this (not as much as the amount donated, but a non-trivial percentage better than what you could get), he isn't trying.