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Re:Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidanc... by fucking_tragedy on Thursday December 03, 2015 @11:16PM (#10674574)
Why feel good about this until you see real results?

Also, Occam's razor. People have a tendency to be selfish.

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Re:Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidanc... by pgwhalen on Friday December 04, 2015 @12:18AM (#10674818)
Your definition of Occam's razor here seems to be "my opinion makes the most sense to me therefore it is correct."
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Re:Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidanc... by fucking_tragedy on Friday December 04, 2015 @12:28AM (#10674852)
Given the favorable tax system written by people who want to hoard their wealth and when many trusts/charities are just vehicles for securing wealth for founders' families, it is hard to believe anyone acts completely altruistically.
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Re:Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidanc... by aninhumer on Friday December 04, 2015 @12:12AM (#10674794)
>Also, Occam's razor. People have a tendency to be selfish.

That's not Occam's razor. People being selfish isn't a less complicated hypothesis than their being altruistic, regardless of how likely it is.

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Re:Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidanc... by oldmanjay on Thursday December 03, 2015 @11:58PM (#10674740)
Why care at all until the results are in? All speculation is entirely baseless, and all moralizing is basically useless.
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