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by s5300 2008 days ago
Your giving is going to crack the brain of a decent amount of the HN userbase. Don't let their snide comments get to you. You're doing something that is highly likely to be a very morally correct thing to do with regards to prosperity of those in your life and the nation in which they reside.

I personally revere your choice.
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h1bthrowaway 2008 days ago
I think many of the snide comments are in response to this:

"Hearing MacKenzie giving away 4B of her 60B is not really impressive because you can live pretty nice with even 1B."

His story was fine as it is. Why did he feel the need to compare himself against MacKenzie?

The other comments seemed more like curiosity than anything else.

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regularemployee 2008 days ago
> Why did he feel the need to compare himself against MacKenzie?

I thought about this and in hindsight I think I was unhappy because it seemed to me that billionaires get glorified alot by the media.

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h1bthrowaway 2007 days ago
This behaviour by the media seems to result in (approximately) good incentives for billionares.

I'm sure many billionares are only doing it for the PR - but if they want to give away $4B for good PR then isn't that a still a benefit to society?

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regularemployee 2007 days ago
> I'm sure many billionares are only doing it for the PR - but if they want to give away $4B for good PR then isn't that a still a benefit to society?

I'm not sure. Growing up, I'm only occupied by achieving "success" and it was the only thing that mattered. "I'll help people when I'm a billionaire" is what I used to tell myself for years. I distinctly remember a few people who could have really used a friend, but I didn't have time for them.

I could've been a better person growing up and I blame part of my "assholeness" on the glorification of billionaires.

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