I hear that Bill Gates promised one half of his fortune to those still living after he is dead? Hmm! Does that suggest he plans to take the other half with him?
Seriously, what Gates or any billionaire does with his/her money after they die is of little concern to me. It is how they treat those living people around them while they, themselves are still alive.
Another sterling example is Andrew Carnegie, who left a legacy of public libraries built with the money he stole from the sweat of his laboring steel workers.
The Gate's, and the Carnegie's, and the Rockefeller's and the Hill's and the Ford's and the whole list of people who think that they are priviliged and entitled to take far more than their fair share of the world's wealth, are a discredit to the Human Race. They remind me of the rich man in the Temple who made such a grand showing of placing his gift to God upon the Alter. Then the poor servant laid his small gift, which was all that he had, upon the Alter. Which of these two was greater in the eye of God?
While we praise the great works of these super wealthy people, who seldom sacrificed a single day in their lives, thousands of good people go about doing the real job of reaching out to one another, unnoticed and unpraised.
Curious Carl
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