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Originally Posted by HawaiiSurf
Yeah...philanthropy/charities AKA money laundering.
If you think Zuckerberg is legitimately giving away 99% of his Facebook shares away.... I have 10k cash to give you in person, you just have to dump 10k into my Stars account first, that is low on funds at the moment.
You sound like a Trump voter, or actually a non-voter.
I've quoted a good line from Quiz Show before, "Anyone who thinks this is about money doesn't have very much." It's reminiscent of Mazlows' hierarchy of needs. Some people have all their material needs met and will try to make more money as a way of "keeping score" or because they like winning whatever game they play (business, investing, etc.), but most will naturally focus on other things, such as real philanthropy (even, eventually, ruthless people like Carnegie and Rockafeller).
The richest people in the US give tons of money away, some (like Gates and Buffet) to better humanity, other (like the Kochs, Adelson, the Mercer's) to try to impose their will on the world.
Another thing, until he was elected, Trump's money was likely running down fast, and his net worth could have been negative. It's only with the presidency that he's really ramping up his income and Trump-related investments are increasing in value.
With posts like this or, say, Shuffle, I wonder if you can hope to educate someone or if they are simply too unthoughtful to ever see beyond their shallow horizons.
Last edited by simplicitus; 05-12-2017 at 08:20 PM.