Let’s face it. We all know that if we were billionaires we would give back a lot of it to help our fellow man. It’s the right thing to do. But, let’s face it, it will remain an abstraction that we’ll never have to act on.
Then there’s Mark Zuckerberg, of Facebook CEO fame. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are worth about $45 billion. They are celebrating the birth of their daughter by forming the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with the goal of fighting disease, improving education and building strong communities with 99 percent of their Facebook stockholdings. That’s no abstraction.
And that’s no middling, vanity Facebook post either.