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Well to be fair, even the Nobel prize is a sort of PR move, though a posthumous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prizes https://en.wikipedi
by acabal 12y ago
Well to be fair, even the Nobel prize is a sort of PR move, though a posthumous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prizes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prizes
- vinceguidry 12y agoEverything large organizations and ultra-rich people do is PR.
- melling 12y agoEspecially the anonymous super rich. http://m.philanthropy.com/article/Donors-Increasingly-Make-Their/62759/ http://m.philanthropy.com/article/Donors-Increasingly-Make-T...
- frandroid 12y agoNice, better than my response. :)
- cma 12y agothe anonymous veneer can just be used to make the donator seem even more selfless and impressive: http://youtu.be/gqncCjxGqGw http://youtu.be/gqncCjxGqGw
- vinceguidry 12y agoStaying out of the public eye is very much a PR strategy as well.
- melling 12y agoNo enthusiasm. Just demonstrating that that person was obviously wrong. It was the quickest thing I could come up with in 15 seconds. I was just giving a proof by contradiction. All I need is one, right? I can give you other reasons people give to charities. They might want to see a cure for a disease they might get, for example. $125m to Stanford: http://cancer.stanford.edu/research/documents/scinewswinter2013final.pdf http://cancer.stanford.edu/research/documents/scinewswinter2... Didn't one or both of the Google founders donate to help some conditions that they have? Howard Hughes gave a lot of his money to his medical institute simply because he didn't want to give it to the government. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institute http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institu...
- frandroid 12y agoLike ordering protesting student-teachers to be ridden of by gang members... Making other companies bankrupt through leveraging your OS near-monopoly... Colluding with the SEC to not get criminally charged for your financial fraud... Investing your future memristors... Eradicating Malaria...