Really awesome that he was able to do this and give back, but none of this would have been possible without his unfathomable wealth and access.
I remember reading a similar article about a (cancer?) patient who used 3D printing for his personalized cure.
The point is that you’re deluding yourself if you think that there is any difference in terms of relative “unfathomability” between 3 billion and 300 billion.
3 billion generates more in interest per day than 99.99% of people make in a year. That’s unfathomable volumes of wealth for even the very rich.
A billion is already unfathomably large. If you think it isn't, you just haven't tried imagining what a billion of anything would be like.
Neither $3b nor $300b are realistically unfathomable to me. I find them easy to consider in terms of the projects I can build if I achieved each of these amounts.
As an example I’d have to allocate somewhere between $50m to $250m to get people to vote on a California proposition. I’d need to spend $1.5b to create a wing of a major hospital. I’d need between $100m and half a billion to create a new K-12 school in my city.
These are large sums of money and are currently out of my reach so if AI doesn’t destabilize everything my best bet is to take the same approach each of my ancestors did. Move my children one level up the wealth ladder and hopefully give them the values that help them prioritize these actions and the optimal way of getting there. I think that involves some amount of compounding and then some amount of spending.
Reminds me of the GOP who was against stem cell treatments until Reagan got Alzheimer‘s
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What's that supposed to mean? Is that bad?
You can do the same thing as he did, what's stopping you?
So I only see more excuses here.
You miss 100% of the shots if you do. not. try.
Right time, right place
Nope. Sid just knows how to make money and that's him being more than 'lucky' with his experience and marketing GitLab right here which you could have done that as well.
> Right time, right place
Just use Sid's story as motivation for yourself.
He did not come from any of those backgrounds.