Bill Gates says he will give up most of his wealth by 2045

The founder of Microsoft Bill Gates said he intends to give up 99 % of his wide wealth for the next twenty years.

Gates said that he would speed up giving through his organization, with plans to end its operations in 2045.

“People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that” Matt Rich “will not be one of them,” he wrote on a blog on Thursday.

Mr. Gates, 69, said that his organization bearing his name has already granted $ 100 billion (75 billion pounds) towards health and development projects, and that he is expected to spend another $ 200 billion, depending on markets and inflation, over the next two decades.

He has Blog postMr. Gates cited the article 1889 by Andrew Carnegie’s pole called the wealth gospel, who argues that the wealthy should have the duty to restore their wealth to society.

Mr. Gates quoted Mr. Carnegie, who wrote: “The man who dies, so he dies rich.”

His last pledge represents an acceleration in charitable giving. Initially, he and his ex -wife Melinda had planned the Gates Foundation to continue working for several decades after their death.

The abandonment of 99 % of his wealth can still leave Mr. Gates a billionaire-according to Bloomberg, the founder of Microsoft is the fifth most dangerous person in the world.

In this position, he shared a schedule for his wealth, which showed his current clear fortune at $ 108 billion and a large hand -drawn arrow that decreases to approaching zero in 2045.

Mr. Gates also said that the Foundation will extract from its gifts to give up 200 billion dollars.

Along with Paul Allen, Mr. Gates Microsoft founded in 1975, and the company became a dominant force in computer programs and other technical industries. Mr. Gates gradually declined from the company this century, and he resigned as an executive head in 2000 and president in 2014.

Mr. Gates said that he was an inspiration to give up money by the investor Warren Buffett and other philanthropists, yet his founders critics say that Mr. Gates is using his charitable situation to avoid taxes and that he has an unjustified impact on the global health system.

On his blog, he set three main goals for his institution: eliminating preventive diseases that kill mothers and children; Eliminate infectious diseases, including malaria and measles; And eliminate poverty for hundreds of millions of people.

Mr. Gates criticized the United States, the United Kingdom and France to reduce external aid budgets.

“It is not clear whether the richest countries in the world will continue to defend its poorest.” “But the only thing we can guarantee is that, in all our business, Gates will support efforts to help people and countries out of poverty.”

He was more directed in an interview with The Financial Times, accusing the CEO of Tesla and head of the Ministry of Government Efficiency, as being personally responsible for the death of children through his discounts on the American aid budget, including the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development.

Mr. Gates said: “The image of the richest man in the world kills the poorest children of the world is not beautiful.”

Mr. Gates raised the issue of canceled grants to a hospital in the Gaza County, Mozambique, which Donald Trump was mistakenly claimed that she funds the condom of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Mr. Musk later admitted that the claim was wrong and said “we will make mistakes”, but the continued reduction of costs.

Mr. Gates told FT: “I love (Musk) entry and meet children who are now infected with HIV because he cut this money,” Mr. Gates told FT.

BBC called Mr. Musk to comment.

The Gates Foundation is a grant for BBC Media procedures, which is the BBC charity, separate from the company’s news operations.