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Giving can be selfish...
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...especially if its done mainly to compensate for a bad business image or to quell personal insecurities. Microsof has arrived at its zenith by antitrust business practices and ruining their competition and raping millions of consumers and computer manufactureres along the way.

And charity isn't charity if you hear about it - at that point it is PR.

The fact that Buffet knows his kids are as greedy as he has been is evidenced by his lack of trust in their judgement to dispense all his assets as they see fit. So in the process of gathering billions he feels he has only spoiled fruit to show for it and so gives them a portion of his wealth to spend on charities of their choice.

Naturally, they will feel sleighted and will likely create dummy charities that recycle portions of the money into offshore accounts etcetera.

The poor masses and their outreaching empty hands are legion. Fill those hands and they will praise you. Leave them empty and they will curse you. That's not a good reason to give and to be honest it does nothing for the recipients longterm well-being either.

Folks like you are the reason press releases accompany such giving. Buying good will increases marketshare and keeps the masses placated. Many greedy folks have learned just a bit since the French revolution.

Buffet and Gates aren't capitalists. They left that category long ago. As a matter of fact, they give competitive and hard working capitalists a bad name.

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