How To Be a Good Billionaire

I actually started out thinking about philanthropy in the late 1990s when I was writing about a lot of the dot-com millionaires at the time and finding that a number of them were talking about philanthropy as a solution to what psychologists call sudden-wealth syndrome. There was a sense that getting rich very fast would be bad for their kids. They also didn't expect to have this money, and so they wanted to find ways to put it to work. Full Story »

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by Kevin Barry - Dec. 26, 2008

Quite illuminating article on the role the "super-rich" in society can (and for some, do) hold in improving global problems. It provides a fairly detailed interview from the author of a book on the topic that explores the topic in quite some depth. It was a little hard to follow at times given due to the grammar (which I assume was transcribed from a face-to-face interview). Otherwise, a very interesting read.

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