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Microsoft founder Bill Gates said he intends to distribute 99% of his great condition over the next 20 years.
Gates said he would accelerate his giving through his fund, planning to complete his activities in 2045.
“People will say a lot about me when I die, but I’m determined that” he died rich “will not be one of them,” he wrote in a blog on Thursday.
Mr -n Gates, 69, said his fund had already given 100 billion dollars ($ 75 billion) for health and development projects, and that he expects it to spend another $ 200 billion, depending on markets and inflation over the next two decades.
In it Message in the blogMr. Gates brought an essay in 1889. Magnate Andrew Carnegie called the Gospel of the wealth, claiming that wealthy people are obliged to regain their state to society.
Mr. Gates quotes Mr. Carnegi, who wrote: “The man who dies thus dies, dies, disgrace.”
Its last key is to accelerate the charity. Initially, he and his ex -wife Melinda planned to keep the Gates Fund for decades after his death.
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft founder Microsoft is 99% of his happiness, Mr Gates-founding Microsoft can still leave.
In the report, he shared his wealth, which showed his current net price of $ 108 billion and a large hand arrow that decreased to zero in 2045.
Mr. Gates also stated that the fund would attract from its fund to give $ 200.
Together with Paul Allen, Mr Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, and the company became a dominant force in computer software and other technology fields. Mr. Gates gradually retreated from the campaign in this century, retired as the head in 2000 and as chairman in 2014.
Mr -n Gates said he was inspired to hand out money to investors Warren Buffett and other virtues, but his fund’s critics say that Mr. Gates uses his charity status to avoid taxes, and that it has an excessive impact on the global health system.
In his blog, he outlined three main goals for his fund: eliminating preventive diseases that kill mothers and children; elimination of infectious diseases, including malaria and measles; And the exception of poverty for hundreds of millions.
Mr. Gates criticized the US, UK and France for reducing the budget for foreign aid.
“It is unclear whether the richest countries in the world will continue to uphold their poorest people,” he wrote. “But the only thing we can guarantee is that the Gates Fund will support efforts to help people and countries get out of poverty.”
He was more littered in an interview with Financial Times, accusing the CEO of TESLA and the boss of the State Efficiency Department Elon Musk of personally responsible for the death of his budget reducing the US, including the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development.
“The picture of the richest person in the world who kills the poorest children in the world is not beautiful,” said Mr. Gates.
Mr. Gates raised the issue of canceled grants to the hospital in Gaza, Mozambique, which Donald Trump mistakenly claimed that he financed condoms “for Hamas” in the Gaza Strip. Later, Mr. Musk admitted that the claim was wrong and said, “We will make mistakes,” but the cost reduction continued.
“I would like (Musk) to enter and get acquainted with the children who were now infected with HIV because he reduced the money,” Mr. Gates said.
BBC contacted Mr. Musk for comment.
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