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Impact is important, of course, but making an impact when you have everything is not difficult. Things that are not difficult are not impressive.
by ebg13 6y ago
Impact is important, of course, but making an impact when you have everything is not difficult. Things that are not difficult are not impressive.
- progman32 6y agoEase is not always related to importance. Edit: I misread, by bad.
- ebg13 6y agoOp specifically used the word "unimpressive", not "unimportant".
- vasco 6y agoHe did not start with everything.
- ebg13 6y agoThat's wonderful and not relevant to whether giving away an amount that still leaves you with everything is impressive.
- sokoloff 6y agoIn what way does he still have everything? It looks like he’s got enough to sustainably generate about a median household income in my state. That’s a long walk from everything in my book.
- ebg13 6y ago> It looks like he’s got enough to sustainably generate about a median household income Oh come on. He's 89 years old and has millions of dollars still. How long do you expect him to live? "Sustainably generating" a median household income in perpetuity is an interesting bar to set. You're aware that most of the country doesn't have any savings at all, yeah? That the current median _at_retirement_age_ savings for the US is around 150K? That he's still getting an actual income from social security payments because why not?
- sokoloff 6y agoMy challenge was to your hyperbolic claim that he "still has everything" and an insinuation that that makes giving away $8 billion (with a B) over his lifetime not as impressive because he didn't give away the last 0.025% of his wealth. That he's getting payments from Social Security after a lifetime of contributions to Social Security is also of no concern to me (I view it as the overwhelming default and entirely proper).