Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change

Re:Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change by tpmx on Monday February 17, 2020 @03:49PM (#22350596)

Just for your sake I included the market cap as well.

Edit: Seriously: this topic seems really hot. So many people seem to care about it when it's spoken about in a negative way. Maybe calm down a bit? Am I experiencing outright bullying right now? That's not a great visual for anyone, just saying.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change by strbean on Monday February 17, 2020 @04:12PM (#22350814)

Market cap is equally irrelevant. $10B is ~8% of his net worth. His biggest gain in net worth was 2017-2018 where it grew ~$80B, which would make $10B = 12.5% of his 'pre-tax income'. Donating 1/8th of your pre-tax income to charity would typically qualify as reasonably generous, no?

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Re:Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change by rpiguy on Monday February 17, 2020 @04:17PM (#22350857)

It’s incredibly difficult to present a dissenting opinion on certain topics here because of the downvoting system. It used to bother me to see points go down (upon reflection the upvote/downvote system really seems to reward groupthink). I think it would better to just have upvotes.

The way the system is designed today the only people who will present a dissenting opinion on a hot topic are either very inured to social pressure, or intentionally trolling.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change by tpmx on Monday February 17, 2020 @04:34PM (#22351040)

You're just supposed to be 100% positive, all of the time.

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