Yes, let me pay for the privilege of using an automated lying machine that has a high probability of getting me killed due to faulty medical advice. I don’t see what could possibly go wrong with this.
wait isn’t this old news? I could’ve sworn that this stuff was being talked about back in the early 2010s because it can help point stuff out to doctors. Or are they trying to 100% nurses instead of just using these systems as an aid?
You guys know what a tax writeoff is, right? She still loses all of that money. If you’re not donating to “charities” that are really just fronts for your personal interests, there’s not really any monetary incentive to do this.
It appears so on this occasion. She’s made giving her money away a full-time job. Not like she’s ever going to live uncomfortably, but it’s pretty much a positive.
Ehh. Even if he is, his choice of charities and other beneficiaries are sometimes questionable. His push for charter schools being a great example. My dislike of billionare philanthropy stems from the fact that it can often subvert democratic interests in favor of one individual’s personal vision and myopic views.
She’s one of the few who actually put the “billionaires should be free to donate how they choose!” thing up in good faith, it seems. I’ll reserve some skepticism, but as far as the mega wealthy go, she seems to actually be doing okay.
She has currently donated over $15 billion since the divorce (started with $38 billion in amazon shares, now is worth about $40 billion despite stock price doubling in the 5 years since then), none of it with strings attached or being future promises like most billionaires. She doesn’t need tax cuts since she just gets taxed on what she actually spends from capital gains tax (or whatever, I’m not an accountant), she doesn’t stay in media spotlights except for when her donations go out, her donation org website does semi-yearly updates so its not trying to be a source of info or drama, etc.
She hasn’t lost money because she amazon stock price keeps going up, she’s just not gaining as much as she could be if she hoarded her wealth, but she knows she has more money than she could ever hope to or want to spend in her lifetime, her kids lifetimes, or however many generations $40 billion can support even assuming the amazon stock prices get tanked (very unlikely).
She just is a good human being with a good heart. It’s rare that people like that have this kind of money to give away for purely charitable reasons, but here we are
I can't seem to find any more information about what alleged crimes were in the illegally-leaked Dominion documents. Was there anything interesting at all? Or was this just noise?
Oh boy, it’s happening! And sooner than I thought it would be!
Unions often wait for more than 50% of employees to voice support for a union before filing for a vote. Once the election process starts, management often holds mandatory meetings with staff to make the case against union representation, and that convinces some earlier supporters of the union to end their support.
This is why the Canadian province of British Columbia changed its laws in 2022 to card-check (single-step) certification which does away completely the need to have an election once 55% opt-in.
The union my company works with used to use check cards to do that here. Only they were telling people “yes” meant “I would like more information” rather than “Yes, I would like to join [the union that was offering lower wages and worse healthcare than we were getting at the time.]” (fwiw, I was not management back then. The company was paying us better than what they were promising to fight to get us.)
changed a fair amount from back then. Better leaders, fewer mobsters. Highly recommend unionizing. There’s plenty of managers that give a damn; but corporations certainly don’t.
The union my company works with used to use check cards to do that here. Only they were telling people “yes” meant “I would like more information” rather than “Yes, I would like to join [the union that was offering lower wages and worse healthcare than we were getting at the time.]” (fwiw, I was not management back then. The company was paying us better than what they were promising to fight to get us.)
changed a fair amount from back then. Better leaders, fewer mobsters. Highly recommend unionizing. There’s plenty of managers that give a damn; but corporations certainly don’t.
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