Some of you paupers may ask:
"What is the Giving Pledge?"
It is a campaign founded by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (over 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of 2018, the pledge has 175 signatories, either individuals or couples; from 22 different countries. Most of the signatories of the pledge are billionaires. https://givingpledge.org/
Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett have done more than organize a series of dinners to pinch Great Givers' debit cards. In two areas:
1. Medical Needs (HIV, malaria, childhood deaths) and
2. Education (better and more equitable),
they have invested about $60 billion; much of this invested in India, where my Peace Corps buddy, who coached Bill Gates in golf, and I served in the late sixties.
Bill Gates regards the 50% contribution as a "low bar." He wants higher participation by the super-rich, because he wants to do more for medical and education needs.
"This is about moving to a different realm," he says.
Long-Needed Different Realm (LNDR)
Let me urge a global means of incrementally raising the Giving Bar into a "long-needed different realm." This LNDR:
1. dramatically improves the health of the world,
2. educates Americans to a higher public-policy IQ, which consequently avoids warring, and
3. inspires a different realm of peaceful service fired by Great Givers philanthropy.
Which nation under God?
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