Captain_Qwark posted...
How is this guy doing that?
The ceremony's highlight came when the founder and CEO of wholesale telecommunications provider Granite Telecommunications, Robert Hale, Jr., received the UMass Dartmouth Chancellor's Medal for his incredible philanthropy work. Hale told the crowd about his career, including losing $1 billion nearly overnight, and urged them not to let failure define them, using his own life as an example of resilience and perseverance.
They paid the uni. During their graduation ceremony the uni gave him an award. He then gave the grads the money. Now the uni and the guy have a bunch of positive press.
It's a bit removed, but I'm low on sympathy for billionaires. But who knows, the articles are calling him a philanthropist, maybe he actually is one of the possible handful that're actually using the money to solve issues instead of hoarding it and/or being extravagantly wasteful.
When I ask myself "would he have done this if he wasn't a speaker getting an award for being such a nice rich guy at the time" I can't honestly say that I think the answer would be yes.
Look, I can name a few instances in MY life where I tried to reach mutual understanding
and i can TELL you, always faster and easier to just kill em. Just is!