The record-breaking donation came from a 93-year-old former professor, who is the widow of a wealthy investor.
how to be a good billionaire: give it all away at the first opportunity
no idea how much she has left, but i imagine it’s still plenty to live on
how to be a good billionaire
No such thing. You cannot get to that point without trampling all over and exploiting others.
give it all away at the first opportunity
Similarly, a person who would do this wouldn’t hoard enough to qualify in the first place
It takes far less money than a billion dollars be able to make world-changing charitable donations. You could, say, fund a light rail system (yes, even in a decently-sized city) or housing for every homeless person in your home town for vastly less than that.
There’s only so much you can invest in yourself and your personal hobbies before there is nothing more you can realistically buy. Any normal, reasonable person, once already confronted with a luxurious lifestyle for themselves and their loves ones that will last forever, looks at all their extra money and decides it would make them feel good to make those world-changing charitable donations. And so they do it.
I’m sure everyone’s point of balancing anxiety and lifestyle is different… but any reasonable person, it’s WAY before they hit a billion.
In short: a normal person starts wildly giving away their wealth long before they become a billionaire. You have to be some kind of antisocial weirdo not to.
If you read the summary, she didn’t hoard it. Her husband did, and she gave it away pretty much immediately after he died.
Lol, right, I’m sure she lived a life of poverty in a shack round the back of his mansion and had nothing to do with those ill-gotten billions and the privileges they bring… 🙄🙄
