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by hoseja 475 days ago
Gifting money to charities is way more catastrophic.
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It's popular to talk about unintended consequences, and site the most egregious, but everything has unintended consequences on top of its intended consequences. The world without all of the billionaire attempts to make a good legacy for themselves would in fact include a lot less interesting things.
Could you elaborate?