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Do something useful with that money:
I agree with him entirely. If you've ever been inside any large charitable organizations -- e.g., Red Cross, March of Dimes, United Way, et al -- you know that they are nothing more than self-sustaining bureaucracies staffed by credulous dupes and run by greedy corporatists. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy operates at triple efficiency in such places.
There is, however, a more important point Mr Page is trying to make, one that all of the hair-pulling hippies are of course missing entirely: it's HIS MONEY. He can do what he damned well pleases with it. Unfortunately, decades of neo-Marxist indoctrination in what's left of our university system has produced an entire generation which is utterly incapable of understanding private property rights and how they are tied to prosperity.
Google CEO Larry Page has an unusual idea about what should happen to his billions should he die. Instead of giving it to a philanthropic organization, he'd rather hand over his cash to Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and Solar City.
In a conversation with Charlie Rose at a TED conference on Wednesday, Page said he wanted his money going to capitalists like Musk—those with big ideas for changing the world
I agree with him entirely. If you've ever been inside any large charitable organizations -- e.g., Red Cross, March of Dimes, United Way, et al -- you know that they are nothing more than self-sustaining bureaucracies staffed by credulous dupes and run by greedy corporatists. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy operates at triple efficiency in such places.
There is, however, a more important point Mr Page is trying to make, one that all of the hair-pulling hippies are of course missing entirely: it's HIS MONEY. He can do what he damned well pleases with it. Unfortunately, decades of neo-Marxist indoctrination in what's left of our university system has produced an entire generation which is utterly incapable of understanding private property rights and how they are tied to prosperity.
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