Re:A letter to our daughter
by lifeformed on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @03:48AM
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How is any of that stuff bad, though? Seems like a good trade. You put $45B into improving the world, we'll sing your praises.
What's the difference between it being all done in vanity and it being all done in goodwill? It's literally the same thing to the rest of the world, the only difference is some internal chemical state in his brain.
Except he still didn't do a thing besides putting out a press-release. Do you think his real intentions will not shape the way he acts in the future? How can you say it is a good trade when no trade happened yet?
Re:A letter to our daughter
by lifeformed on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @12:34PM
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You think he's going to just put a press release out and not actually do it?
I still remember what Internet.org was supposed to be and what it turned out to be. The man is an egocentric liar.
Re:A letter to our daughter
by ArkyBeagle on Thursday December 03, 2015 @12:35AM
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We've become too cynical and rent-seek-ey. Many people realize that a large wad of money was Nature's way of telling them to keep doing what they're doing.
Instead, it has to be "charity" now. Very few rich people ever did charity well.
It's nice when vanity projects end up helping the masses (and we'll have to wait and see how successful it is at that). However, we shouldn't act like this very public display of wealth (again, before anything is even done) has motives that are so different from, say, giant statues of oneself or giant mausoleums.