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Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet by Barrin92 on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:17PM (#21697947)
>Somewhat unique to the US, our billionaires tends to be fairly philanthropic.

slightly more philanthropic than the rest of the world which makes sense given how prosperous the US is, but overall US billionaires actually do not give much and Gates and Buffet are indeed outliers. The average billionaire donates barely more than the small fraction of a per cent annually. The average top 20 billionaire does in fact give less relatively speaking than the average American household.

https://twitter.com/gabriel_zucman/status/119842279460784537...

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Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet by lonelappde on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:40PM (#21698141)
What do you call a billionaire who gives away their billions?

Survivorship bias.

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Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet by Aunche on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @07:06PM (#21698296)
Technically, the billionaires who don't give away their money would be the "survivors."
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Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet by nhumrich on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:53PM (#21699202)
I think that's the point. The bias leans towards those who don't give
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Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet by jeremyfranco on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:25AM (#21701926)
> What do you call a billionaire who gives away their billions?

A generous billionaire.

Those that don't are just greedy billionaires.

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