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by freeamz 409 days ago
True. Actively committing to spend down the entire endowment in a specific timeframe does not mean it is not used create a dynasty.

In the 50's the Congress in US was getting suspicious about those foundations already. There were a investigation for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Com...