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Right. Joel Send a noteboard - 25/08/2011 08:13:56 PM
Not that I don't think it good that he is doing but some very not nice men have done exactly the same thing after spending years amassing vast fortunes. I think they start to feel guilty about having so much wealth that they really could never spend it. I know I would feel bad after that second or third billion. One of the few times you can feel bad in a good way and everyone still have their clothes on.

Carnegie's a fairly notorious case; he went from gunning down striking coal miners to endowing various still extant and effective charities; the Rockefellers went a similar route. My personal opinion has long been that as Carnegie started to "get religion" as he aged he began to worry about afterlife accountability, but Rockefeller seems to have felt a moral AND religious duty all his life (and still became the richest man in history).
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