LogFAQs > #974390183

OK, let's get unpopular.

3,000 15-19 year-olds die every day. Either I need to feel sad about each and every one of them or I am able to react however I like depending on the situation.

In this case I feel a little bad, but I feel no worse for this one than I do for the other 2,999 that died on the same day.

And I really don't feel bad for the older people who were responsible for choosing to do this. I don't celebrate their deaths, but I don't feel much of anything and don't feel bad about that.

As for billionaires/etc, can I say that I would start giving 99% of my money away upon earning it to ensure I would never be obscenely rich if I were in their situation? No, I doubt I would if I'm being realistic. That said, I DO believe I would not waste it on yachts and other wasteful status symbols and hope I would give 99% of it away by the end of my lifetime so as not to fund an entitled and pointless line of family successors. Buffet has talked about doing this, but...we'll see.

The bigger problem is a political and cultural system that allows individuals to collect this much money. It's hard for them to effectively donate that much money even if they wanted to.

So there you go.