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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.
I don't disagree, but my points still stand
To counter your actual point, they might have picked her because there isn't another billionaire who gave away such a big part of their wealth at once. Bill Gates could have given away more over time, i don't know really, but her giving away so much proves even with just a few billion you can multiple your wealth in a few years. I guess that has to do with the fact any one that rich only needs like >0,01% of their wealth to fund their extremely comfortable life.
If I were a billionaire I would be careful about where to give my money. Like that would be my full-time job. You always hear about organizations that spend most of contributions on overhead and have overpaid CEOs, like Goodwill. I'd want to lay eyes on every place I gave to so I could be reassured it's not another org that just shifts money around.
A million seconds is 11 days or so. A billion seconds is 31 YEARS.
just to put it in perspective of how big a billion truly is