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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by kyleblarson on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:02PM (#13991761)
You should start a company, grow it to a multi billion dollar market cap, and give away your generated wealth.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by zaroth on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:13PM (#13991842)
That's pretty much exactly what Jeff will end up doing. He can either give it away or the government will take more than half of it. Unless he manages to crack that whole mortality thing.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by thinkling on Thursday March 30, 2017 @01:57AM (#13993253)
Many other multi-billionaires in the US have signed the Giving Pledge [0], promising to give away more than half of their net worth to charity. Gates, Paul Allen, Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Benioff, Michael Bloomberg have all signed. Even Larry Ellison! But not (yet) Jeff Bezos, or for that matter Sergei Brin or Larry Page.

[0] https://givingpledge.org/

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