These billionaires pledging to give away their money before they die is just a big slap in the face to everyone else. It’s virtue signaling because these same people do everything they can to pay as little tax as possible and various other aggressive financial tactics for themselves and their companies.
So instead of promoting redistribution of wealth while they’re alive, they make sure they get all the power, status, influence, and benefits of their wealth, and only once they’re dead or near it do they plan on giving it away.
So instead of promoting redistribution of wealth while they’re alive, they make sure they get all the power, status, influence, and benefits of their wealth, and only once they’re dead or near it do they plan on giving it away.