If you were Bill Gates, how much of your fortune would you give away?

Question

And who would you give it to?

Answer 1

i would give it to charitys tht help kids with cancer,or on drugs and to keep poor people off the streets and danger stop prostitution!! well i guess that i mean ill give 'HALF;; of my cash to help those in need but i relly do mean it,cause lots of people say ill do this! but they dont do sh!!t.....by the way build buildings for ppeople who were abanded at birth or by parents so when they are 18 they have somewhere 2 go

Answer 2

If I was Bill Gates, I would obviously do exactly what Bill Gates has done. BUT, if I was in Bill Gates' position, I'd give away everything but what I really needed to lead a comfortable life just enough for a few creature comforts and enough to pay my bills for the rest of my life. I would absolutely Love giving money away to those that needed it and deserved it. I would make an art of discovering and researching those folks and/or organizations that could and would use the money wisely to help other folks, etc., etc.

Answer 3

A Lot of it.
To the environment.
To the animals, especially to those on the endangered species list.
To the needy people.
To my friends and family.
If I were rich I would by a true Philanthropist/Animal Rights Activist/ Altruistic Humanitarian.
I am not Bill Gates and I do not have all that money to give away so I will simply be happy being me: all of the above things minus the Philanthropist.
Besides God knows what he is doing and He knows I'd give most of it away.

Answer 4

If I had the money that Bill Gates has...I would help some families that lost everything due to the hurricanes last year.I would get them on their feet again.But before I would do that,I would help my family and put money in the bank so my daughter could go to college.

Then after all said and done.I would buy me a island and sit back and enjoy the rest of my life.

Answer 5

If I was Bill Gates at least I wouldn't pretend to be such a "humanitarian, generous philanthropist". If someone has a shitload of money and they dump a bucket of it on a poor country from their private plane because they are going down and need to get rid of the weight that doesn't make them charitable.

Answer 6

None of it. I would use it to pay people to do things to create useful things. Giving money away implies that the money is just money. Money represents someone's value, lots of money represents exploiting people for more money than you deserve for the work you do. When Bill Gates accumulated all that wealth, it meant that a LOT of people paid too much for his products, since the money they paid didn't go back into new products for them to use to improve their work. In other words, most business profits are a means of theft of people's actual value. Giving it away means you don't respect the people that worked hard to create the value of that money before they paid you for some cheap crap like Windows software, which is really just 10 cents worth of plastic and some printed material. Yadda Yadda intellectual property, copyrights, leasing, all that other bullchit which is just more ways to steal money from people who need it.

Answer 7

Like...95% of it...I wouldn't "give it away" because I would already have my own foundation called the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation". lol.

Oh, well I guess they give money to other organizations...I would supporting organizations that help poverty and health crises in peripheral countries. I would also give it to increasing access to education internationally. I would also allocate some of the money to more domestic issues such as the homelessness problem.

Answer 8

20 billion.. 10 to technology, and 10 to cancer research..
I'd also spend a lot of time just meeting people on the street and giving away money for no reason, seems a fun thing to do..

Answer 9

Just like Bill and his wife are currently doing, they are giving it all away, so would I.

Answer 10

if i was bill i would buy my own country and give it all to the leader