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Apple Bos to give away all his money

  • 27-03-2015 11:14am
    #1
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,602 ✭✭✭✭


    Tim Cook has announced that he intends to give his fortune away to charity when his kids are finished college

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/102539600

    Cook has a fortune estimated around 700 million Dollars

    He is following the lead of others like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates who have signed 'The Giving Pledge' to give away at least half of their fortunes
    http://givingpledge.org/

    Of course this is all very laudible, and fair play to Tim Cook and others, but I can't help but wonder about the unintended consequences.

    What happens when the liberal and progressive billionaires give away their wealth?

    We are left with the evil ones. Monty Byrnes style, pulling the strings of politics and funding all kinds of 'think tanks' to influence economic and social policy for their own benefit.

    The likes of
    Gina Rinehart, (heiress to a mining fortune and Ayn Randian nutcase)
    Harold Simmons (Heir to a mining fortune, wants to nuke Sydney harbour)
    Ivan Glasenberg (Vulture Capitalist)
    Dan Gertler (Blood diamonds)
    Viktor Bout (arms dealer)
    The Walton family (walmart, ultra conservatives)
    The Koch brothers (ecoterrorists and political puppetmasters)
    etc
    are not part of the giving pledge, and in fact are the opposite, their main goal in life is to accumulate more power, more wealth and more influence for themselves regardless of the consequences for other people

    When the good billionaires spend their money helping others, who will be left except the evil ones?


Comments

  • #2
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    begging email sent


  • #3
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,458 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Just glad you found a negative.

    PHEW!


  • #4
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,602 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    kneemos wrote: »
    Just glad you found a negative.

    PHEW!

    I feel it's my duty as a member of the internet


  • #5
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Akrasia wrote: »
    What happens when the liberal and progressive billionaires give away their wealth?

    I'm puzzled as to why you think the situation would be improved by a handful of people hoarding mountains of money?

    Money can only do either good or bad when it is spent - if it's just being stockpiled it may as well not exist.


  • #6
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,458 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I'm puzzled as to why you think the situation would be improved by a handful of people hoarding mountains of money?

    Money can only do either good or bad when it is spent - if it's just being stockpiled it may as well not exist.

    Nobody hoards money,particularly the rich.


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  • #7
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    Harold simmons is dead over a year so I don't think you have too much to worry about with him.


  • #8
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Apple Bos
    Microsoft Bos
    Microsoft Dos
    Illuminati Confirmed


  • #9
    mailforkev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,798 ✭✭✭mailforkev


    I think it would be more a shock him finding out from the OP that he has kids.

    Good on him though giving it all away to further humanity, the less Monty Burns the super rich are the better for everyone.


  • #10
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Cormac... wrote: »
    Apple Bos
    Microsoft Bos
    Microsoft Dos
    Illuminati Confirmed

    "bosboot -a" (AIX) - that tears it, I'm outta here.


  • #11
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,602 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I'm puzzled as to why you think the situation would be improved by a handful of people hoarding mountains of money?

    Money can only do either good or bad when it is spent - if it's just being stockpiled it may as well not exist.
    If you use your money to make more money (and by extention, gain more power and influence) it's different to using your money to help others


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  • #12
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,602 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    TheMilkyPirate wrote: »
    Harold simmons is dead over a year so I don't think you have too much to worry about with him.

    Thats what he wants you to believe


  • #13
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    TheMilkyPirate wrote: »
    Harold simmons is dead over a year so I don't think you have too much to worry about with him.

    Or so he'd have you think

    Dead men pay no tax *taps nose*


  • #14
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,602 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    mailforkev wrote: »
    I think it would be more a shock him finding out from the OP that he has kids.
    Oops, my bad. Nephew not offspring..


  • #15
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,458 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Akrasia wrote: »
    If you use your money to make more money (and by extention, gain more power and influence) it's different to using your money to help others

    By making more money you're creating work and employment and helping others also.


  • #16
    35cent
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭35cent


    I'll take some of his money. I think I'm needy enough to get some of it.


  • #17
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,602 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    kneemos wrote: »
    By making more money you're creating work and employment and helping others also.

    Yeah, that's bullsh1t.

    Trickle down theory has been comprehensively demolished

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/business/12scene.html?_r=0


  • #18
    Lt J.R. Bell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Lt J.R. Bell


    mailforkev wrote: »
    I think it would be more a shock him finding out from the OP that he has kids.

    Good on him though giving it all away to further humanity, the less Monty Burns the super rich are the better for everyone.

    Since when does a rich person have any obligation to the little people, bar paying a fair share of tax.? What business is it to the little people as to what a rich person does with his hard earned financial success?

    Money is powa; what is the point of being rich if you can't treat politicians like play things, poodles, lap dogs? Why on earth you a wealthy person listen to the views or be dictated by the little people?

    These "kind" donations are tax exercises, ensuring their money goes to things that they want to see it go to , and not on food stamps for some work shy redneck.


  • #19
    Trent Houseboat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Trent Houseboat


    TheMilkyPirate wrote: »
    Harold simmons is dead over a year so I don't think you have too much to worry about with him.

    Who is he Hotblack Desiato?


  • #20
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Akrasia wrote: »

    He is following the lead of others like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates who have signed 'The Giving Pledge' to give away at least half of their fortunes


    no no, he was into giving away his fortune before it got popular


  • #21
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    kneemos wrote: »
    By making more money you're creating work and employment and helping others also.
    since the start of the recession the number of billionaires has doubled


    by next year the richest 1% will own more than the rest of us

    the richest 85 people already own more than the poorest half of humanity


    three months income of the richest 100 people could end global poverty

    Poverty kills more people globally than cancer, so calling the hyper-rich a cancer on society is probably unfair to cancer.

    Rather than trickle down this financial crisis has seen a huge transfer of wealth to the hyper-rich. Had they shouldered the wheel with the same increases of tax that everyone here had with USC and stealth taxes like Bins and Water we could have ended global poverty and saved about 11 million lives a year.


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  • #22
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    If I were his son I'd be making moves on having him made a ward of court.


  • #23
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    If I were his son I'd be making moves on having him made a ward of court.

    If he were my son and he went about that I'd have the little sh1t liquidised and put in his mother's breakfast smoothie.


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