I don't see it as ragging on her. I think she is being used as an example as she has given away more in proportion to her total wealth than most other billionaires yet is now worth more than ever. The point I believe this meme is making is billionaires will still continue to be obscenely rich even if they are heavily taxed.

I respect her contributions and philanthropy. I just don’t think essential social support should depend on the generosity of billionaires instead of stable public systems.

No human needs a billion dollars. It's an utterly obscene amount of money and just because you give away $26 billion does not mean that the remaining 10 billion is an acceptable amount to keep.

The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is about 1 billion.

To imagine the huge difference between a billion and a million I always liked the example - a million seconds is roughly 11.7 days, a billion seconds is around 31.7 YEARS.

What about having $1bil and giving away $1mil is like having $1k and giving away a $1.

I always say to people "how long is one million seconds?"

The answer is 11.5 days.

Then i say "how long is a billion seconds?"

The answer is 31.7 YEARS.

Nobody needs to be a billionaire.

Every fact I scrolled past and read on that made me more depressed while slowly raising my blood pressure.

Throw the rich in a ditch.

Financial obesity, love that term

he married a reptile queen to, he married a plastic doll that likely wont challenge or sue him like mackenzie woud. and his networth is like 300bn right now. up from 70bn before the pandemic.

A million is easy to think about and honestly disappears pretty quickly compared to a billion. Between student debt, medical bills, private debt of various types, I'd eat up 100K in an afternoon alone. Then buying house somewhere else I'd like to live would take a huge chunk out of that. I'd have a much better setup than I do now but it'd be gone within a few years.

Actually a billion is very hard to spend if the rule is for personal use. You can do it by buying super yacht or private jet but other than that, there's nothing much you can do with that amount of money if you're a decent person.

But for altruism purpose, i can think of many, many stuff.

A million is buy a house or feel comfortable that you get to retire money. But yeah by 10 million I'm living off dividends, own a house, and am comfortable spending money incredibly frivolously because I'm making well into 6 figures in interest. At thst point I might be inviting friends on foreign vacations, my treat.

That's an amount of money that I'd have to come into because I'd rest on my laurels before I hit it. The only reason I can see going past it aside from gold sickness is control of a company you founded.

It's still 1% of a billion. It's under half a thousandth of how much she got in the divorce.

What are you even going to do with a billion dollars?

Compensate for your insecurities

come on, you can think of something .

you could create a whole humanitarian organisation. have well funded teams dedicated to improving the communities of your choice

a million just gets you a cozy home in a decent neighbourhood. Now you pooped out all your funds and need more to cover maintenance

Well, it's not money, it's assets.

If you have a house, car, etc, that collectively cost 1mil, you're worth 1mil.

What you could do with the extra money you have is putting it into assets that generate cash flow. Stocks, bonds, indexes, businesses. If you can manage it well enough, it could secure you a lifestyle where you can ditch your job without being strapped for cash.

That's basically what the rich do, except on a MUCH larger scale, where the cash flow generated is enough literally throw money around.

Can she give me a small gift? Really anything more than what I have now would be nice but $1mil would be really cool?

TBH so long as they are donating I don't particularly mind if they want shit named after them, though I'd prefer if that money just came from being taxed so we don't have to rely on billionaire largesse. Plenty of Carnegie libraries out there to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library

Chuck Feeney. An actual role-model to follow if you become uber-wealthy.