Billionaires to Say Thank You To.

 I love the premise of this article.

In short, it is hard to applaud billionaires but these deserve recognition.

Wow.

Yeah, true. When we see Elon Musk shooting his mouth off and throwing away $44B on Twitter, (I won't have anything to do with 'X') it is easy to think less of these poor humans.

Here is the article:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/opinions/melinda-gates-mackenzie-scott-philanthropy-filipovic/index.html

Here is a snippet from that piece:

There is something irrefutably broken about a global system in which a small number of people are able to amass staggering amounts of wealth, a huge number struggle to simply survive (and many don’t) and then we applaud those among the uber-wealthy who bestow some of their largess on the suffering masses.

But this is the global system we do have and, within it, some billionaires are behaving much more generously and ethically than others. 

The opinion article goes on to talk about the wives of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos as exemplars, as well as Warren Buffett. It should be thought-provoking.

Happy Reading,

J.W. Gant