Azim Premji donates every dollar he makes over 1 billion for the last 20 years.

Mckenzie Scott is working through donating her share. Same for Melinda Gates, Dustin Moskovitz & Cari Tuna.

Warren Buffet plans to donate the larger part to charity.

Let's keep building the good examples so the alternative (power consolidation across generations) is unthinkable for future generations.

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iamkeithmccoy 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Good examples are great. But it doesn't solve the problem. The only way to fix this busted economy where inequality is increasing and few, wealthy individuals are gaining insane amounts of political power through spending is systemic change in the structure of our tax base.

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nosioptar 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I feel like the first dude is a good argument for taxing billionaires. He's still doing alright at what would be a 100% tax over a billion.

	▲	JKCalhoun 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Never mind that when we tax billionaires, we (the people) decide what to spend it on.

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telesilla 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Agreed. We could posit that the biggest impact a billionaire could have to improve the world would be to lobby for increased taxes.

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nobodywillobsrv 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why not tax the gov though? "Nobody should have that much control" means you must first have limited government and some mechanism to stop unstable governance dynamics which allow for capture. Currently it seems like billionaires are one way to stop that.

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canucker2016 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HN just had a post about the craigslist founder donating over half billion dollars to charity. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588216

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halJordan 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What do you mean "let's" like we're the billionaires? The ultra wealthy have had over a century (in only this country!) to read The Gospel of Wealth. They're not going to do it. And it's fine to admit that.