Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidance scheme?

Re:Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidanc... by lifeformed on Thursday December 03, 2015 @11:07PM (#10674550)

So what? What if Bill Gates revealed on his deathbed that he did all his charity work only for egotistical reasons? So what? Good for him, he gets the ego boost he wants, we get a better world.

If Mark Zuckerberg puts his wealth towards the greater good, then that's good, no matter what his reasons are. Why does he get more flack for doing this than for the Walton family giving nothing to charity?

If Mark just wanted to avoid taxes, he would've done so quietly. If he's doing it for his own ego, then that's good: it means he is incentivized to be effective in his charity.

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Re:Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidanc... by Chathamization on Thursday December 03, 2015 @11:42PM (#10674668)

Pablo Escobar donated a ton of money to the community. Should people have just praised him for that, and said that his reasons don't matter, and so what if he was donating largely to ingratiate himself into the community in order to protect himself from authorities? We can't simply ignore a person's motives.

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Re:Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidanc... by umanwizard on Friday December 04, 2015 @01:02PM (#10677896)

You don't need motives to explain why Pablo Escobar was a bad person even if Bill Gates isn't. Pablo Escobar killed loads of people.

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Re:Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidanc... by mhurron on Thursday December 03, 2015 @11:20PM (#10674588)

> So what?

So I don't trust them.

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