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MacKenzie Scott gifts $80 million to Howard University, marking one of the school’s largest donations in its 158-year history (fortune.com)

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 4 days ago

I'm defending her actions because I would hope I'd be even half as smart as she is. She's grown her initial $36B from the divorce, so now she has that much more she can help others with. It's a matter of long-term thinking, which you unfortunately seem to lack.

Never mind it's not her responsibility to make up for the shittiness of other billionaires, as I just said in another comment to you elsewhere. Be thankful at least a few of them even try to be decent. You'll never convince anybody that were you in her shoes you would give it all away either - that $20M you calculated looks great now, but just a couple decades ago most would have said just a tenth of that. What will it be in another couple decades?