Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

A lesson from Warren Buffett: giving it away is more fun than sitting on it

Martin Vander Weyer's Any Other Business

issue 14 August 2010

Martin Vander Weyer’s Any Other Business

‘If the rich really wish to create a better world, they can sign another pledge: to pay their taxes on time and in full; to give their employees better wages… and working conditions; to use production methods that don’t kill or maim or damage the environment…’ That was Peter Wilby in the Guardian, responding to the news last week that 40 American billionaires have pledged to donate half (or in Warren Buffett’s case, 99 per cent) of their fortunes to good causes.

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