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It’s almost like it was done… as a team.

Where one side provided all the money, the other side provided the direction.

Both were necessary. Weird huh?

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It's really easy to give away money you didn't earn lol

Sounds very hard actually. If you asked me to spend a significant fraction of Bill Gates' money I wouldn't even know how to begin.

How would you do it? Do you have a way to earn his trust, a service to offer him that he values a lot, a way to steal from him, or anything like that?

Melania apparently managed to do it with true love and kindness. Are you capable of sincerely loving Bill Gates for a period of several years, or fake it in a perfectly convincing way for several years?


I don't think it's that hard. MacKenzie Scott Bezos managed to give away nearly half (not accounting for appreciation) of the wealth she obtained from her divorce in a few short years.

She got them from the divorce. She didn’t have to convince anyone to pry them loose.

Notably, she played a huge part in how Amazon was structured due to her influence on Bezos.

I do find it very interesting though the apparently common pattern here of ‘woman gives away massive fortune she got from x to make the world better/rehabilitate her image’ or something.

Meanwhile, the men all seem to go on hooker binges. See Bezos, and now Gates (vs Epstein files).

No one, including the people getting screwed at the end, are actually innocent, but some definitely are more guilty than others eh?




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