Bill Gates, Come On Down!

Send a textIn which a recent Twitter thread from Bill Gates announcing his newest gift to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gets me thinking — about our current Gilded Age, its billionaires, and the rest of us here in the shrinking middle class. Leave me a comment, suggest what you'd like me to overthink on another episode, or just say hi at  [email protected] opinions expressed are entirely my own. Information sources include:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation websiteTristan Bove article in Fortune  magazine, July 13, 2022Quote from Bill Gates in benzinga.com re: moving off the list of world's richest peopleWarren Buffett quote on how much to "leave the children."Gobankingrates.com: Median U.S. household retirement savings, citing survey from ConsumerAffairs and study by Government Accountability OfficePolitifact : Elizabeth Warren tweet, ""The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."Time.com, "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90% — And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure"; Sept. 14, 2020, Nick Hanauer and David M. RolfTime.com,  "The Economy is Great. The Middle Class is Mad"; April 28, 2022, Alana Samuels and Belinda Luscombeepi.org, Economic Policy Institute: "CEO Compensation Has Grown 940% since 1978"bmj.com, "Diseases of Despair Have Soared Over Past Decade in U.S."Background music: Pixabay MusicSupport the showDo you have comments to share or an idea for an upcoming episode? Need something overthought? I'd love to hear from you!Email me at [email protected], contact me on my website at www.JanMFlynn.netOr, DM me on Twitter: @JanMFlynnAuthorTheme music courtesy of Pixabay Music