Bezos should put his billions in public libraries
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#2I don't think so
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#3Bezos still needs to focus on actually delivering the value that the world has priced into the expectations of his company. He can't just retire and collect income off of an existing machine like Gates.
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#5“So far, you’ve concentrated on things that might benefit our distant successors” ... “space trave, cancer treatments, AI”
I would hope we’re going to make large strides in these in his lifetime. If we could effectively funnel more into R&D sooner, we’d all see the benefits sooner. Cancer(s), for example, might be cured in say 2060 with our current effort, but if we solved the problem by 2030, hundreds of millions would benefit.
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#6Plain old : I know better than you on how to spend _your money.
Boring.
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#7Plain old : I know better than you on how to spend _your money. Boring.
Bezos asked for suggestions on how to spend the money. As the article clearly shows.
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#8Bezos still needs to focus on actually delivering the value that the world has priced into the expectations of his company. He can't just retire and collect income off of an existing machine like Gates.
What does that have to do with his personal wealth?
How is Bezos' situation different than Gates?
e: to clarify my second question: How is Bezos' situation different than Gates' when Gates left Microsoft.
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#10Is non fossil fuel energy research too hard to be funded? Gates and Bezos etc have funded just about a billion. Why not 20 billion