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Why is what he did with his money “interesting?” I’d call that a personal and private matter, very similar to what position he preferred in bed. The word “inter
by raganwald 15y ago
Why is what he did with his money “interesting?” I’d call that a personal and private matter, very similar to what position he preferred in bed. The word “interesting” to me suggests more than just whether members of the public would like to pry into something. I have no doubt that millions of Justin Bieber's fans are very interested in what he ate for breakfast, but that doesn’t make it interesting.
Likewise if someone digs up dirt that Mr. Jobs parked his car in a handicapped spot, that would again fuel a frenzy of “Oh my, such a terrible thing to do” chin-wagging, but how is this interesting?
You can’t even make an argument that how he spent his money has anything to do with integrity. He never asked me to buy Apple stock so that his personal fortune could be used for Good Works. He never ran for elected office on the basis of giving back to society. What he did with his money is his affair, and a fascination with it says so much more about the human desire to pry than it does about anything of true intellectual interest.
- 83457 15y agoI'm curious where the wealth that is nearly equivalent to the combined average salary of a quarter million people will be going. I guess that means I'm a bad person.
- pkulak 15y agoHe was fantastically wealthy, and it all came from products sold to a huge percentage of the American people. We are interested in where that money went. That's hardly similar to wondering what Bieber had for breakfast, or how someone prefers sex. Does not donating a penny make him a bad person? I'd say not, especially when you consider everything else he's done for this country, even just economically. People like Buffet and Gates have set the bar pretty damn high, though, and I'm happy their public altruism has put pressure on other wealthy people to do the same.