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Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts) Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:55 PM Sep 2020

Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke/

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Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke (Original Post) Clash City Rocker Sep 2020 OP

Trumpers will hate him and worship Eliot Rosewater Sep 2020 #1

Impressive. dhol82 Sep 2020 #2

Wow! Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #3

First of all, what Feeney has done is absolutely admirable... regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

1. Trumpers will hate him and worship

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Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:57 PM

Sep 2020

The least generous human being who ever existed in history

dhol82

(9,352 posts)

2. Impressive.

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Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:58 PM

Sep 2020

Not many who would go this route.

Thekaspervote

(32,750 posts)

3. Wow!

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Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:28 PM

Sep 2020

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)

4. First of all, what Feeney has done is absolutely admirable...

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:30 PM

Sep 2020

...but the headline itself is rather misleading. The "officially broke" refers to the organization he used to make donations. He and his wife do still have $2 million (out of the $8 billion he originally amassed) for their retirement. While I'm far from suggesting that giving away 99.975% of your wealth is insufficient, and also recognize that they seem to live extraordinarily frugal lives regardless, the headline makes it seem as if he's now headed for the steam grate for the rest of his life. Fortunately, that's not the case.

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