This year's Bill and Melinda Gates annual letter focusses on surprises they found in this past year of their work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

DAFs were our core line of business on the way to successfully raising $1.3 billion for the second year in a row.

Veterans talk about how to fund post-disaster relief: go with grassroots community-based groups; large orgs inefficient and oft corrupt

To realize this vision of improved data for deeper philanthropic impact and transparency, WINGS, Foundation Center, CENTRIS, and partners from around the world created and refined the Global Philanthropy Data Charter. The main objective of this revision is to make the document more accessible and provide concrete guidance on how to successfully engage in data-sharing processes.

tax avoidance
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/30/historian-berates-billionaires-at-davos-over-tax-avoidance

Henry Mance

Historian berates billionaires at Davos over tax avoidance

‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.’ — This historian wasn’t afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-2TEwdRnX0&t=416s - The New Feudalism
Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility
- Edelman Trust Barometer - 76% want change - lead by CEO, not wait for government.
Bullshit about the Aggregate.
The Aggregate bullshit you've been telling doesn't matter for fly over American country.
Davos should be cancelled this year because of Brexit, Trump (gov shutdown), Gelbwesten, AfD, Salvini, refugee crisis (Mittelmeer Wall)
Davos is a family reunion for who broke the world.
Outcomes inevitable by policy (Austerity, tax evasion etc)
&! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hFqKq4fVc&feature=em-uploademail - Stop Talking about Philanthropy
taxes taxes taxes all the rest is bullshit
&! Davos elites reject higher taxes, offer upskilling as answer to inequality - https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/akbdyu/davos_elites_reject_higher_taxes_offer_upskilling/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12196963