Dan GillmorIt will surprise no one that American billionaires are having, ahem, second thoughts about the obviously empty promises they made to be serious philanthropists.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/
TeflonTrout 
he/him(pulls charging handle on his Billionare's Way Out)
Anthony DavidWealth Tax would work better
Jeff Atwood@dangillmor which ones and how many of the ~2,700, is my question .. the math of the second gilded age is quite brutal and unforgiving.
TrimTab 🇺🇦@dangillmor
I don't blame them, pretending to be God is expensive...
I don't blame them, pretending to be God is expensive...
Baron Vonskinnback@dangillmor why aren't they just taxed properly...
Codey McCodeface@dangillmor @Vonskinnback could be because we keep electing rich people to decide how much to tax rich people
Riley S. Faelan@Vonskinnback Because authoritarian middlemen who like to imagine themselves as sucking up to them have seized the power in USA.
Kid Mania
JackMexBillionaires prefer a murderous class war. Their obsession with AI, drones, and humanoid robots is to replace the manpower they lack in that class war.
Paul_IPv6yeah, much like "i'd love everyone else to use public transportation so that i can drive on the highway with no traffic", this is the billionaire "i'd love everyone else to do philanthropy so i can buy a bigger yacht than 'X' has"...
@dangillmor Thus, providing us some data points about how being a sillionaire damages a person's character over time. #MoreResearchIsNeeded (preferably using rats for the sillionaires, for what Institutional Review Board would hand out ethics approvals for inflicting sillionaireness upon human test subjects?)