Bill Gates created and ran Microsoft which was able to overcharge for its PC operating systems and Microsoft office product for decades because they held a virtual monopoly.
This extra money was taken from purchasers of personal computers for 30 years. Mostly the middle and upper middle class and wealthy.
Gates took $62 billion of his wealth and his so far used $27 billion of it to accelerate the curing of Malaria, other diseases, and bringing clean water, sanitation and better agriculture to the poor. He has also helped accelerate the curing of AIDS. Some countries which had negative GDP growth and big drops in life expectancy because of Aids have had their public health and economies turned around.
Bill Gates talked the other billionaires into giving instead of robbing them like Robin Hood
The Giving Pledge is a campaign Bill Gates created to encourage the wealthiest people in the world to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
As of July 2013, 113 billionaire individuals and couples and one family group have signed the pledge to give at least half of their wealth to charity.
An estimate of the contribution promised by the first 40 donors, based on their aggregate wealth as at August 2010, was at least $125 billion.
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This extra money was taken from purchasers of personal computers for 30 years. Mostly the middle and upper middle class and wealthy.
Gates took $62 billion of his wealth and his so far used $27 billion of it to accelerate the curing of Malaria, other diseases, and bringing clean water, sanitation and better agriculture to the poor. He has also helped accelerate the curing of AIDS. Some countries which had negative GDP growth and big drops in life expectancy because of Aids have had their public health and economies turned around.
Bill Gates talked the other billionaires into giving instead of robbing them like Robin Hood
The Giving Pledge is a campaign Bill Gates created to encourage the wealthiest people in the world to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
As of July 2013, 113 billionaire individuals and couples and one family group have signed the pledge to give at least half of their wealth to charity.
An estimate of the contribution promised by the first 40 donors, based on their aggregate wealth as at August 2010, was at least $125 billion.
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