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Bezos has pledged to donate 5% of his wealth to the "Bezos Earth Fund". Although good at first glance, billionaire philanthropy allows the wealthy elite to exert great influence over the organisations they control and public policy discussions.
A huge study of 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy has found that such cuts increase 上, ページのトップへ income shares, but do not fuel economic growth または decrease unemployment.