{"id":13185,"date":"2010-08-10T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T07:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2010-08-10T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T07:38:21","slug":"bill-gates-warren-buffett-give-away-half-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/10\/bill-gates-warren-buffett-give-away-half-your-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates, Warren Buffett : Give away half your money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>This is one of those things where nothing that I might say will make it anymore believable. \u00a0Heck, even the quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/wealth\/2010\/08\/04\/40-billionaires-sign-the-gates-buffett-giving-pledge\/\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> seems like a hoax:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Gates and Warren Buffett announced today that 40 signers, including at least 30 billionaires and other wealthy families, had officially made the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/givingpledge.org\/#enter\" target=\"_blank\">Giving Pledge<\/a>\u2013a promise to give away more than half their fortunes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think they are just trying to prove Chris Rock wrong (from 1:28 and further):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4m37JkkGjAY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>This is one of those things where nothing that I might say will make it anymore believable. \u00a0Heck, even the quote from The Wall Street Journal seems like a hoax: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett announced today that 40 signers, including at least 30 billionaires and other wealthy families, had officially made the\u00a0Giving Pledge\u2013a promise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/10\/bill-gates-warren-buffett-give-away-half-your-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Gates, Warren Buffett : Give away half your money!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1951,1968,2810,1416,1593,2418,2424,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-13185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bill-gates","tag-business","tag-charity","tag-chris-rock","tag-economy","tag-humor","tag-warren-buffet","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7524,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/24\/is-bill-gates-for-real\/","url_meta":{"origin":13185,"position":0},"title":"Is Bill Gates for real?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 24, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a nice bit about Bill Gates at College Humor today. 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