The Giving Pledge

The giving pledge

1. The Giving Pledge is a project that was created, and started, by Bill Gates and Warrant Buffet. The Giving Pledge is a help address society’s most demanding problems by inviting the worlds richest individuals and families to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to charity or charitable causes either during their lifetime or in their resolve.

As the co-founder of the project and author of one of the articles (the second text) it is pretty obvious that Warrant Buffet’s attitude towards this whole project is very positive. He mentions only good things about this project, and means if you own to much you are in danger of caring more about your things than for people. He mentions that he does not value money or possessions as much as true friends. Therefore, he is not in need of every kind of luxury and can thereby donate his unneeded money away for better purposes. He also mentions that giving away almost all of his money won’t change his way of living, nor for his family. His children have already received significant sums for their personal use and further life.

Text 3 Is written by Peter Wilby, there not are so positive and points all the negative things about the project. He argues that by donating that much money to charity, the US will lose about $40 billion, because it is exempt from taxes. Also, Peter Wilby believes that some of the billionaires are doing it to become even richer. Peter Wilby seems to be a bit too loyal for his country to think of anybody else before his own people.

2. I think that text 1 is neutral, because there is not any personal opinions on whenever he thinks that the charity-work they do is a good or a bad thing. He only comments on how much money they have and how much they have donated. But in fact, that could be a thing on what he thinks of the idea about the billionaires giving billions to charity, maybe he thinks, that everyone could donate to that, and even the small amounts of money count in the long run. And I could imagine he was one of those people with the saying “Is it best to receive $10 a thousand times or is it best to receive $1000?” So in fact he is a little biased, I think, but not on that they do it, but how they do it.