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About half of the top 50 philanthropist dollars in the United States in 2014 were given by tech entrepreneurs, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Overall, the technology sector gave away $5 billion that year, though their charitable contributions dropped precipitously last year to $1.3 billion (possibly skewed due to the absence of "mega-gifts," such as a $2 billion donation by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2014).
"There is a very real surge of philanthropy from tech sector leaders," says David Callahan, founder and editor of Inside Philanthropy, a news website that tracks nonprofits. "Many of these folks believe in giving early in life while still in their careers, as opposed to a more traditional model of waiting until later in life."
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 11 2016, @10:45PM
American 'culture' is work til you fucking drop dead of a heart attack and make those under you work for next to nothing until THEY also drop dead from heart attacks (and can't pay the hospital bill OR the funeral home bill) or are forced to work 16 jobs just in order to make things work until they get so PISSED OFF that they vote in someone like Donald Trump (when it should have been Sanders, (and a good 'fuck you' to Hillary, glad SHE lost)), and then start giving 'your' money away in shady tax deduction schemes where you get to harm people and environments.....
.... go USA 'culture'..... you're #1!! Yaaay!
If that is what it takes to be #1, i'll pass. I like spending time with my family and having a life, thanks.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @11:30PM
Donate to the Anonymous Coward Foundation? We shall commission a life-size painting of me, also a bronze bust.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday November 13 2016, @04:31PM
As a proud Union Worker, I can proudly say: Go read a fucking history book. The Labor movement, which is responsible for you having Saturdays off, and enjoying an 8-hour standard work day was started in the USA.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday November 13 2016, @05:19PM
Wow, so EVERYONE has Saturday off now? When did i miss this???
EVERYONE works an 8 hour day? No one has to read work emails on off hours? Go in after hours to work? No one has to work 2 and 3 jobs in America to make ends meet?
Is EVERYONE in America a union worker???
That IS something to be proud of!
Except..... waaaiiiit...... what you said is not true???? The labour movement has been decimated by American politicians laws? That union membership is in the shits now???
And that American corporations are screwing workers over like crazy in order for their CEO's to make billions so they can become philanthropists and make themselves look good while, hey!, screwing their workers????
Hmmm.... still proud of the good ol' USA!?
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(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday November 13 2016, @06:43PM
"Crony Capitalism is what America is all about. It's not the internationalist cabal of bankers who have no loyalty to any one nation, or the globalists who want to do away with borders (and standards of living)! It's the USA's doing!"
You didn't read that history book, did you? Globalists (people who don't want borders) are the reason unions got busted up. NAFTA is the reason. TPP *was* going to be another reason, but thanks to Trump being elected, that is now dead in the water. Once jobs start coming back to this country, you will see the resurgence of labor unions.
"EVERYONE works an 8 hour day?"
IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN THAT, MY LIBERAL FRIEND!!! Actually, a HUGE percentage of the country is working ZERO hours a day thanks to our trade deals and business-senseless politicians! Gotta love welfare!!!
"And that American corporations are screwing workers over like crazy in order for their CEO's to make billions so they can become philanthropists and make themselves look good while, hey!, screwing their workers????
IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN THAT!!! Liberals are voting in DROVES to bring MILLIONS of people with lots of children and NO job skills into the country while simultaneously voting on HIGHER TAXES to make it happen! You think big business screws over workers and small business? Try socialism!
"Hmmm.... still proud of the good ol' USA!?""
I am not proud of its absolutely ass-backward citizens or government at times, but for all of it's flaws, the USA is the best country in the WORLD. Name me a single country that is "better" that does NOT have a larger percentage of whites in it than we do here! You will find a strong correlation of quality of life and demographic - with Switzerland being somewhere right up top.
There isn't a single country that is *this* diverse (where half of the country wants to destroy the other half, for instance) in every way imaginable and is simultaneously as powerful, productive, and influential. Who knows what the future brings, but for now, absolutely, this country is the best on the planet.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday November 14 2016, @01:42AM
Well, guess our ideas of 'best country' differ.
And Canada is more ethnically diverse.
https://lifestyle9.org/worlds-best-country-to-live-in-2013/4/ [lifestyle9.org]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/16/a-revealing-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-ethnically-diverse-countries/ [washingtonpost.com]
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(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday November 14 2016, @03:41PM
Oh, we absolutely do. "Best," to me, means the most capable, most accomplished, and most powerful.
The standard of living in those countries on the "best" list is taking a MASSIVE dive, because their models of government are
A) Not sustainable (Does not qualify them for "best" in my book)
B) Currently crumbling as a result of Hillary Clinton's disastrous intervention in the Middle East (But you voted for her, so you support the destruction of Europe anyway, by extension)
C) Not designed to be flexible, unlike the US Constitution
You also fail to notice that Europe benefitted massively from the US Constitution, US technology, and US governing principles after WWII. We actually rebuilt nearly that entire continent - right after we rescued it. :) The only reason they enjoyed their socialism for so long is because the good old US of A was making it possible by funding its defense for FREE - something your cute little listicles fail to account for.
Now that that defense is going to come at a price with Trump at the wheel, and those "great" countries you listed have opened themselves to both invaders and economic disaster due to the decadence of ideologies like YOURS, Europe is crumbling - while the US will become stronger than it ever has before. After the lite
Oh, and about those two "Best" countries to live in at the time that listicle was written Denmark and Sweden...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-and-denmark-have-highest-number-of-sexual-assaults-in-europe-a6800901.html [independent.co.uk]
SAY MY NAME, MOTHERFUCKER: USA! USA! USA!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday November 14 2016, @09:17PM
Ummm... U.S. standard of living is falling because of all your debt and will fall further when, one day not too distant, taxes will be raised to pay it back: just none of your Presidents have had the balls to raise taxes to do it.
I'd say China is going to surpass the US as the super power, and the US will be entering a war if they want to try to prove otherwise.
And i agree: the other countries SHOULD be paying more their way... we have some consensus! The US should not be shouldering such a large burden: it should be a fully funded U.N. or other agency going as a combined force.... show the force and make the others back down.
I did not vote for Hillary: not a US citizen :)
Okay, i'll say your name... "Motherfucker". Is that right?
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(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Tuesday November 15 2016, @05:00AM
"Ummm... U.S. standard of living is falling because of all your debt "
That Obama created and that Clinton was going to extend with all of her "Free" welfare programs - modeled much after Europe's. That is going to get fixed with Trump - taxes don't need to be increased when internal revenue is increased and money isn't being as actively thrown out of the country through World Policing programs.
"I'd say China is going to surpass the US as the super power"
You were (and are) wrong about Trump, wrong about Clinton, wrong about the US, so I'd say you'd be wrong about China, too. Their economy is absolutely falling apart. Some of their largest businesses have filed for bankruptcy as of late (because of all that inflationary spending by the billionaires - re: my original comment) but the government refuses to let them fail. So the bubble gets bigger - much bigger than the US bubble, and with none of the built-in quality infrastructure to fall back on like we have here. They build "concrete" buildings that are actually styrofoam with a concrete layer on the outside - that is the infrastructure they have to carry them through the coming Trump-accelerated recession. They have destroyed their farmlands with pollution. They have poisoned their water. China is fucked.
" it should be a fully funded U.N. or other agency going as a combined force"
"fully funded UN" - by whom? The US? Britain? Germany? With what money?
No. It is every country for theirself now. No more "free" this or that in Europe - they destroyed their societies doing that. They will leave their age of decadence the hard way or the harder way.
"I did not vote for Hillary: not a US citizen :)"
But you supported any of the other candidates over Trump, and the fact of your ignorance stands.
Genuinely good attempt at a comeback with the "Motherfucker," but the diction and context wasn't proper for you to reach that interpretation linguistically, and I would gladly take "Motherfucker" over "illiterate, uninformed, and idiotic" anyday.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:06PM
Okay, good luck with your fantasy.
Don't know where you got me supporting Hillary from, but my posts say otherwise, which shows your ignorance.
You are uninformed and idiotic in that you can't see the US going down yet.
Sad.
Moving on.
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