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Yup. Make money first. Once you have stable income, you can use the excess to effect as much change as you want.
by rocky1138 9y ago
Yup. Make money first. Once you have stable income, you can use the excess to effect as much change as you want.
- zython 9y agoWhen has that worked out for the greater good ? Not trying to sound snarky but I'm really trying to think of an example but can't find one.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 9y agoGates Foundation
- Trombone12 9y agoSo now the anti-trust of 90 Microsoft and IE 6 counts for nothing it seems.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 9y agoYep, in the grand scheme of things, saving actual kids lives counts for more than killing a rival browser.
- Sophistifunk 9y agoNot just Gates, but on the off chance Musk actually makes it to a permanent Mars settlement, it will be the best thing that's happened to humans since the printing press, if not fire.
- ivanhoe 9y agoor Andrew Carnegie, long before Gates or Musk... he gave away more than 70 billions in today's dollars...
- kerkeslager 9y ago...and kept thousands of workers in poverty despite the massive success of his company through monopolistic business practices, killed a few workers putting down a strike, and built a country club that damaged a dam, causing a flood that killed upward of 2000 people. Donations are nice, but it's not obvious to me that Carnegie was a net positive (or Gates or Musk, for that matter).
- rocky1138 9y agoRockefeller springs to mind.
- taurath 9y agoRight, just like get power first, and once you've consolidated it then you can do all the good you promised. The amount of charitable people in the world clearly doesn't cover everyone's needs or else there would be no point in further charity. You also lose perspective, because all the skills you've gained to make money are really only applicable to making money, and by that point your social community will only be people making lots of money and then the only problems you'll be solving are the ones for people with resources. The best minds in the world are focused on figuring out how to make people click ads and make money in the stock market. Sure there's outliers, and the most famous are the ones of people who have "won".