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Why not simply avoid making billions so you don't have to give it all away to assuage your guilt and come out close to neutral?
by CamTin 8y ago
Why not simply avoid making billions so you don't have to give it all away to assuage your guilt and come out close to neutral?
- BigChiefSmokem 8y agoInfluence.
- amelius 8y ago> Why not simply avoid making billions so you don't have to give it all away to assuage your guilt and come out close to neutral? Because someone else will be making billions ... over your back.
- throwaway37585 8y agoAssuage your guilt?
- ambicapter 8y ago> 1. To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: assuage her grief. See Synonyms at relieve. > 2. To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example). > 3. To appease or calm: assuaged his critics. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/assuage https://www.thefreedictionary.com/assuage
- throwaway37585 8y agoI was asking why the GP thinks assuaging guilt is a motivation here.
- CamTin 8y agoIt's pretty well documented that a lot of the lavish philanthropy of gilded age barons like Carnegie and Rockefeller was motivated by their guilt and concern about not being able to thread a camel through a needle. I don't know about the religious motivations of our current crop of billionaires, but presumably a lot of the same motivations are at play, since human nature hasn't changed substantially in the past 100 years.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> assuage your guilt People who would feel guilty with billions don’t get billions. And I would argue they shouldn’t. If you’re a billionaire, you get to unilaterally do things others can’t. Like pioneer space travel or explore under-appreciated branches of medicine.
- frockington 8y agoBecause with billions you can have such a greater impact... I really don't follow this argument