update from forbes sept 2020
In total, at least $171 billion from the coffers of Forbes 400 members — a cohort with a collective $3.2 trillion net worth — has ended up in the hands of charities and nonprofit institutions.
Though 74 billionaires on The Forbes 400 have signed the Giving Pledge — a promise to commit at least half of their wealth to charity — only ten people on list received our highest philanthropy score of 5, which means they’ve given away at least a fifth of their fortune. Besides Buffett and Soros, this exclusive club includes Intel cofounder Gordon Moore, Oklahoma philanthropist Lynn Schusterman and CNN founder Ted Turner.
Bill Gates, who heads the world’s largest private foundation with his wife Melinda, is a notch below at a score of 4. Forbes has credited a slight majority of his foundation’s $55.2 billion in grants paid through 2019 to gifts by Buffett. Back in 2006 when the Omaha native pledged a lifetime donation of 10 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway, he stipulated that the Gates foundation must annually give away at least the value of his previous year’s donations, plus 5% of its own assets.
Eighteen other list members besides Gates, such as oil tycoon Trevor Rees-Jones and private equity billionaire David Rubenstein, scored a 4. Nearly a third of the list — including the world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos — scored a 1, which means they’ve donated less than 1% of their fortune.
before exploring which billionnaires -moore, bezos, gates, soros, schwarzman .... are helping peoples build the post corona world - here are some of most interactive tours of may 2020 if you are happier navigating other who's who's
we search richest by purposes they have applied machines to round the development triangle
livelihood education
access to finance/land
health safety including nutrition/food-water security
at a basic level if next child born is to develop, her family or community need to connect her to the development triangle
until 1760 when 2 people glasgow u started exploring engines and markets - most people lived at subsistence levels- then some peoples/places developed 100 times more health*wealth-
what opportunities did machines offer
-moving people and things with more power than horse
digging/construction applied both to agriculture and building cities
electricity both as way of wiring up machines and offering light/heat
telecommunications and multiple ways of sharing info beyond papers printing press
(arms)
after world war 2 when nations met at san francisco bith of un- about a quarter of peple hade developd th majority had not- this include more tha half of humans - asians living on the largest of the old world's 3 subcontinents - asia africa europe connected by a complex land-bridge which english language navigators called middle east - aka part of west asia
the question smith had asked- how can peoples/places everywhere benefit from machines was now multiplying -the war had accelerated nuclear power ans perhaps more hopefully computing was being invented- could humans go beyond colonial age where most peoples lands were ruled by the needs of mainly g8 empires-
all the while as human populations multiplied how would we innovate local agricultural security and natures diversity - and not suffocate in carbon dirt
its contributions to this exponential development map that we aim to catalogue worlds richest by- we need your help in the details as well as questioning intergenerational exponential impact not just 90 day monetary extraction
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