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You're unlikely to be worth $9 billion through charity and benevolence.
by kristopolous 10y ago
You're unlikely to be worth $9 billion through charity and benevolence.
- saimiam 10y agoWhat if you start out at say 50B and donate a 41B away to charity to help address huge challenges facing humanity - call it something hokey like "the giving pledge" - and end up at 9B?
- got2surf 10y agoDefinitely possible, but like the parent poster mentioned, unlikely. Far more people have intentionally built their way to $9B than have intentionally reduced their fortune to $9B.
- chc 10y agoThis is true, but I feel like you're trying to draw an inference here that doesn't really work. You're unlikely to be worth $9 billion through a love of hamburgers, but that doesn't mean somebody worth $9 billion is unlikely to enjoy hamburgers either.
- kristopolous 10y agoI was cynically implying lavishly successful business people are often shrewd, calculating, and clever insomuch as any generous gift is likely also a form of investment