Bill Gates doubles to 200 billion dollars, “almost everything” is “his wealth

Billionaire Bill Gates It was announced on Thursday that it will double the charitable giving to 200 billion dollars over the next twenty years.

in Blog postthe Microsoft The co -founder wrote that he was driven by the many challenges facing the world, such as children’s health and climate change, as well as the activation of the late Andrew Carnegie for wealth.

“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,” Gates wrote. “There are many urgent problems that must be solved for me to stick to the resources that can be used to help people.”

Gates is currently the fifth richest person in the world with a wealth of $ 168 billion, according to Bloomberg billionaires index. The commitment of $ 200 billion is assumed that its charitable institutions will grow through investments.

Gates, founded by Gates and its ex -wife, gave Melinda French Gates, in 2000, more than $ 100 billion. He said that after Bill Gates gave “everything” of his wealth, the Foundation would close at the end of 2045.

Gates is one of a few billionaires that publicly intensify charitable giving Non -profit organizations and Universities Federal financing discounts. Despite the increase in giving, he said that philanthropists could not cover billions of dollars in external aid discounts by the United States and other wealthy countries.

“The United States, the United Kingdom, France and other countries around the world reduce their aid budgets by dozens of billions of dollars. It is not a charity – even one of the size of the Gates Foundation – can form the Gulf in emerging funding at the present time.” “It is not clear whether the richest countries in the world will continue to defend its poorest.”

In an interview with Financial timesGates Illon Musk criticized his role in Cut out external aid to us. In February, the MUSK Ministry of Governmental Efficiency was effectively closed. The Federal Agency spent $ 42.5 billion in 2023, according to L. Government dataThat provided help to save life, including health care, clean water and food all over the world.

Gates told a newspaper Financial times.

In early March, the agency estimated The cuts will have severe consequences, including a million children suffering from severe acute malnutrition without treatment and up to 166,000 additional deaths of malaria.

The gates, his wife at the time and Warren Buffett In 2010, bid was established as a commitment to the richest people in the world to give up more than half of their wealth in their lives or will. French gates Since you step down From the Gates Foundation, but it has its charitable organization.

Musk has signed the bid pledge. Gates said New York Times He does not know if Musk will continue.

“The pledge – an unusual aspect of it, you can wait until you die and still fulfill it. Who knows? He can be a great love.”

Musk gave less than 1 % of his wealth, according to Forbes. The publication is estimated at the bid-the gifts that were paid, and not only the pledge or the essential-at 620 million dollars over his life until 2023.