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But there would be a shit ton more polio in the world, so I'll accept that tradeoff.

Larry Ellison still today owns 42% of Oracle.

What he does instead is take out loans against his stock.

Bill could have done the same and still fund all his philanthropy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/lawrence-j-e....

Man I love Bill Gates so much. I know low effort posts are frowned here but I had to say it.

Yeah, but that would still have been a poor investment strategy. You have to manage the risk. And you can only do that by looking forward, not backward.

Who knows, Microsoft probably wouldn't have reached its current heights if less people had enough stakes.