• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    No human needs a billion dollars. It’s an utterly obscene amount of money and just because you give away $26 billion does not mean that the remaining 10 billion is an acceptable amount to keep.

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        3 days ago

        To counter your actual point, they might have picked her because there isn’t another billionaire who gave away such a big part of their wealth at once. Bill Gates could have given away more over time, i don’t know really, but her giving away so much proves even with just a few billion you can multiple your wealth in a few years. I guess that has to do with the fact any one that rich only needs like >0,01% of their wealth to fund their extremely comfortable life.

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      3 days ago

      A million seconds is 11 days or so. A billion seconds is 31 YEARS.

      just to put it in perspective of how big a billion truly is