> I'd rather someone give away $100M compared to $0 even if its peanuts for them based on their personal finance. I guess that's part of the point of the threa

> I'd rather someone give away $100M compared to $0 even if its peanuts for them based on their personal finance. I guess that's part of the point of the thread's original comment. I'd rather he give money too, but he's actively avoiding giving money he should be giving on other fronts which would've been used for positive means also. Hence, is he really doing it to see people be helped, or for the PR that comes when you're the one "voluntarily" doing the helping. > It seems odd that society feels entitled to decide what the richest person in the world should and shouldn't do with their money. I don't disagree with premise that he can hand away $5B and still not bat an eye but why is it out decision to make? Jack Ma put it in some interesting terms when he mentioned that if you have a million dollars, it's your money. When you have a billion dollars, that's not your money, that's the trust society put on you [1]. And that's the thing, this money means huge amounts of power, so what he does with it really matters to everyone. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqmZsUbYIfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqmZsUbYIfA