Ed Tesiny
eptept at gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 06:35:55 CST 2014
FWIW, I agree the money should be setup in a foundation or something legally similar. But I think the target audience for this money should reside in the USA, assuming that's where the money was generated from. I'm not against, by any means, improving the state of third world countries but they are often consumed by politics and corruption. If you can use the money to fight that, it would benefit the people but the success rate would be extremely low. Where's Dickford to shoot me down on this?? On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>wrote: > Just finished reading the articles at Wired and NYT about Egon's latest > adventures, and also the Shimizu plan to create an 11K solar strip on the > moon and broadcase said power back to Earth. > > Which raises the question... Suppose your app went viral and suddenly you > had a million users, with attendant revenues. What would you do with the > money? > > As an initial guess, I would factor in Number of Spouses (did you know that > the plural of Spouse is Spice?), number of college-ready children, > outstanding mortgage, car leases/loans, etc. > > But let us suppose that all these exigencies could be handled by the first > B of your $100B, denominated in US $. > > What would you do with the rest? Would you join Bill Gates's foundation and > donate 51% toward curing malaria and similar infectious diseases? Would you > put some loot into breast-cancer research? Send medicine + education to > Third World countries (e.g. this concerns some African beliefs that if you > sleep with a very young girl, you stave off HIV/AIDS)? Or, radically > alternative to the aforementioned proposals, would you choose to keep it > all and let the lawyers figure it out upon your demise? > > I know that it's an imaginary question, but nonetheless I shall be > interested in your responses. Even if we divide the amount by 100, it's > still more money than you could possibly spend in the rest of your life, no > matter how serious your habits; so what would you do with $1B? For > starters... and then what would you do with $100B? > > As for me, I would join the group of billionaires that the Gates's have > formed, that includes Warren Buffet and Sir Richard Branson and 120 others, > all of whom have decided to give a minimum of 51% away, towards such causes > as curing malaria and polio. As for me, I would go a lot further, and give > away about 90% not 51%, leaving me enough to go vacation in Mallorca and > Shanghai and Havana every year pending my demise. > > And you? What would you do? > > Arthur > > -- > Arthur > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >